The first story is Julie’s funeral party: It’s a party, please wear black Now, we will enter Lori’s psychotherapeutic clinic and look into her personal life to experience her and her patients’ stories. Possessing this shared understanding and empathy is, in fact, a fundamental prerequisite for them to be able to offer help and support. It is precisely because they are also susceptible to being plunged into the depths of pain that psychotherapists are able to truly understand the pain of others because, when people confide in them, they are predisposed to empathize with their troubles. These require them to adopt the role of a patient and seek help from another psychotherapist.
Psychotherapists may even have challenges that they cannot resolve on their own. They, too, must engage in a difficult battle with their own primitive human nature.
Among the psychotherapist’s repertoire of skills, there is no magic ability that allows them to immediately or quickly surmise a person’s innermost and greatest fear with a single commanding glance.Īpart from these aforementioned professional skills, the fundamental factor enabling psychotherapists to successfully help others is this: they too are flesh and blood “human beings.” Hence, they are ordinary people with the same weaknesses, unease, and desires. In this way, they help their patients clarify the truth. They support the patient in ascertaining if their protagonist is simply going around in circles or has, in fact, been making constant progress. This process allows the patient to assess if a newly introduced character in the narrative plays a central or supporting role or is merely disruptive. They undertake to help people to edit their personal narratives, aiding them in weeding out the material that obscures the main plot. This study equips them with the corresponding theories, tools, and techniques to help their patients resolve issues that plague them. They are merely people who have gone through a professional training. In fact, this reaction is usually out of fear – fear of being exposed, fear of being analyzed.Īctually, psychotherapists do not have any superpowers. Suddenly she is transformed into a mutant with supernatural powers, allowing her to read people’s minds. Lori Gottlieb, the book’s author, frequently encounters a particular scenario: when she tells someone that she is a therapist, they stop in their tracks surprised, before promptly proceeding to ask a series of bizarre questions, like, “should I tell you about my childhood?” or “can you help me with this problem with my mother-in-law” or even “are you going to psychoanalyze me?” However, swiftly, after this initial reaction, people try to avoid her, as if she is no longer an ordinary mortal. Today we will be unlocking the book Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.
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