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Originally Posted by BudFox
I can relate to much of this, and this echoes other things I have read. Others have written about infants using their mother's nervous system to learn to regulate initially. If that did not happen to sufficient extent, then presumably the adult would have ongoing problems with self-regulation, and be partially dependent on others for that regulation. That is partly my reality. And I think this manifested in therapy.
But when they start applying labels and diagnoses, and especially when they conflate such manifestations in therapy with some sort of healing process that can be "managed"... that's where I get off the train. Now we're into snake oil and witchcraft territory.
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this is why i like what Fisher says about transference and wish i could share all that she writes in her book to explain it. i found myself relating to most of what she wrote in regard to transference, and also what she says about a therapists countertransference to our transference. she explains it so it is
easily understandable, and in a concrete way that does not rely on confusing and mystifying psychobabble. and to her, the solution to easing the transference is simple (with the help of NFB)...calm the dysregulated / over active amygdala, calm the clients emotional dysregulation, calm the transference.
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Originally Posted by BudFox
Judging by what I've read and experienced, when therapists play around in this area there is a good chance they will cause harm. First-do-no-harm means nothing to them. If you have a client who becomes dysregulated, and then the therapist says "oh look, the hour is up, goodbye till next week, better work on your coping skills", well that is a recipe for a paroxysm of dysregulation. The whole thing is set up to cause limbic and sympathetic overdrive.
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agreed...and Fisher touches on this in her book as well explaining how therapists can do harm when they do not understand or handle a dysregulated client properly and how a Ts negative countertransference to a dysregualted client can seriously damage the therapy.