ECHOES, I remember when you said you got the book. I'm so glad you finally read those "mom" parts in it and found companions in how you are feeling. (Like you, I rarely read books from start to finish but skip around and read what I want/need to. )

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One is that the importance of these cravings therapeutically is that it shows the therapist at what point child development needs were not met and so it shows where on the developmental continuum I got 'stuck'.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">My T and I have visited this idea too, using the concept of the healing circle and 4 different phases of human development. What is cool is how it ties into child development too. We identified the key phase of "stuckness" for me, and also for my H and also for my T! (T and I are the same, lol, although he has moved beyond that.)

That is wonderful the book has been so helpful, ECHOES. When I read it, I was early in my relationship with T, feeling obsessed with him and therapy, thinking about it and him all the time (doing stuff like googling his real estate transactions ). It felt scary to me to feel that way, and I felt there was something highly abnormal about it. So reading In Session was very reassuring to me. I passed through that obsession phase quite a while back, but that book helped me get through it by normalizing it. I'm really happy the book has helped you too.