Posted by badhaircut on December 4, 2003, at 20:13:27
In reply to Re: Does anyone else here lie on the couch?, posted by DaisyM on December 4, 2003, at 17:32:17
I used to go to a neo-Freudian CSW about four times a week for Analysis. One day, lying on his couch, I said, "I lie on your couch." He said, "And sometimes you just tell half-truths."
He'd probably been waiting ten years to crack that joke.
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I think deliberately, physically relaxing is important in any clinical setting, even CBT. It helps you to be more aware of your feelings and to quickly spot which things upset you.
But I think that kind of conscientious relaxation is better done sitting than lying down. The relaxing we do lying down is not so deliberate: it's more automatic, and we take it for granted. Sitting, we have to sort of make an effort to relax, to TRY to do it. That's good in a clinical setting, I think.
Also, I think sitting can help keep things focused. The psychoanalytic folks, of course, say that's exactly what they DON'T want.
(They lie.)
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