I promised in my last post to talk about the idea of “resistance” in more detail. We therapists often feel things like frustration, confusion and even helplessness when we run into it. We have been known to label resistance as bad. Worse, we have at times turned to criticizing and blaming “resistant” people. Not only…
Time to finally pick up on the cryptic statement I dropped at the end of my last post. As it’s been awhile, let me re-cap: most of the problems which bring people to psychotherapy are not all negative. Oh sure, they are unpleasant or nobody would come for therapy. But they also have real benefits. …
While I have never personally been asked this question, it’s a hot topic in the field. Or at least lukewarm. It’s a pretty good question. After all, when I consider devoting some of my time, effort and money into something, the thought of dumping all of those things down a deep, dark hole is not…