Posted by Adam on May 16, 2000, at 18:17:09
In reply to Re: How Well Do You Know Your Therapist?, posted by Noa on May 15, 2000, at 10:23:39
Hell, I had homophobic obsessions and he had me doing all kinds of uncomfortable
stuff in my neighborhood, which happened to be the "gay" nexus of D.C.Creative, and daring. I don't think it would even have occurred to me to send a
similar patient off shopping in a "gay" bookstore, for instance, or popping in at
a "gay" bar. Talk about tough. If this girl's obsessions were as intense as mine,
I imagine going to a cemetary must have been horrifying. Would I have done that
to her? I can't say.A little empathy is good. A lot is crippling, sometimes.
> > The best therapist I ever had was Charles Mansueto, PhD, who treated me for OCD
> He was most of all creative.
>
> I read an article about Mansueto several years ago, in the Post magazine, featuring his work with an adolescent girl with obsessions of death. He certainly WAS creative! He had her do increasingly intense work to take the power out of the topic of death, even looking at all manner of morbid stuff, and trips to the cemetary, etc. Apparently, it worked well.
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