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Originally Posted by stopdog
Actually - I did not call all of therapy malarky. If it helped you great. Any number of things can help people.
But what I was calling malarky was the idea that if they don't make it mysterious and unclear, if they actually were to be clear and forthcoming about what they are doing, that it would not work at all. The idea that clients are so incapable of understanding or being able to still use therapy appropriately if those guys would stop all of the smoke and mirrors and game playing and just explain to clients how what they are doing at the client works or at least is supposed to work. If you found the smoke and mirrors game useful - good - but malarky that it is the only way.
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I'm not saying you are calling "all" therapy malarkey. And, there are many things that can help, besides therapy or in conjunction with therapy. Those: ideas, lack of clarity, game playing, the way therapist see clients, the smoke in mirrors, etc., and all that you mention in your posts are what I see as the malarkey.
I actually agree with you. And, like you, myself included, have figured out a way to make therapist/what they do or don't do work to our advantage.
Sorry, if I was not clear in my previous post.