"Healthy contacting in a therapeutic dialogue has a transformative power. Jacobs (1996) calls this: The transformative power of the resolution of shame issues within the therapeutic relationship."


On the other hand… if a therapeutic relationship increases one's shame exponentially, due to mishandling or incompetence or client-therapist mismatch, then what? So many psych articles discuss the ways that therapy is the answer to various core wounds, but rarely do they discuss the implications when those wounds are deepened and reinforced by therapy itself. Might represent a point of no return. Now the client is a walking pustule of abject shame.