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1. In-depth personal therapy. You cannot understand another's emotional life unless intimately familiar with your own.
2. Making discussion of therapy relationship a normal part of sessions. Recognizing pt's problematic relationship patterns are always happening *in the room*
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2. Making discussion of therapy relationship a normal part of sessions. Recognizing pt's problematic relationship patterns are always happening *in the room*
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3. Recognizing your own emotional reactions with a patient are a crucial source of clinical information about the patient and knowing how to use that information constructively (see #1)
4. Unfailing honesty & authenticity with yourself & your patients, no matter how difficult.
3. Recognizing your own emotional reactions with a patient are a crucial source of clinical information about the patient and knowing how to use that information constructively (see #1)
4. Unfailing honesty & authenticity with yourself & your patients, no matter how difficult.
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5. Truly understanding how and why therapy frame & boundaries are necessary for the difficult work, and how to maintain them gracefully.
6. Ongoing and absolutely ruthless willingness to examine ourselves.
7. Humility about what we can know an understand—and readiness
5. Truly understanding how and why therapy frame & boundaries are necessary for the difficult work, and how to maintain them gracefully.
6. Ongoing and absolutely ruthless willingness to examine ourselves.
7. Humility about what we can know an understand—and readiness
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to reconsider assumptions, beliefs, & methods at any point.
8. Generosity of spirit. This doesn't mean neglecting your own needs, sacrificing unreasonably, or working for inadequate pay. It does mean dedicating yourself fully, heart, mind & soul, to the work of the session.
to reconsider assumptions, beliefs, & methods at any point.
8. Generosity of spirit. This doesn't mean neglecting your own needs, sacrificing unreasonably, or working for inadequate pay. It does mean dedicating yourself fully, heart, mind & soul, to the work of the session.
5/ Humility about the limits of our capacity to know and understand another's person's experience (and understanding our own is more than hard enough). Tirelessly striving to understand more and understand better.... knowing we are destined to fall short.
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10. Seeking out every possible opportunity for clinical consultation/supervision with clinically expert teachers and mentors on the same path of psychological exploration and inquiry... but maybe further along.
11. Becoming intimately familiar with all facets of human
10. Seeking out every possible opportunity for clinical consultation/supervision with clinically expert teachers and mentors on the same path of psychological exploration and inquiry... but maybe further along.
11. Becoming intimately familiar with all facets of human
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experience, averting our gaze from nothing. This includes sexuality and not just the vanilla varieties, spite, hate, envy, sadism, destructiveness, etc. etc. All are part of human experience, none can be denied or shunned.
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experience, averting our gaze from nothing. This includes sexuality and not just the vanilla varieties, spite, hate, envy, sadism, destructiveness, etc. etc. All are part of human experience, none can be denied or shunned.
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