Posted by Pfinstegg on January 27, 2004, at 22:03:08
In reply to Re: Deep in therapy..with only one way out » Pfinstegg, posted by DaisyM on January 27, 2004, at 21:39:55
Oh, thanks for your message, Daisy!. I am quite terrified quite a lot of the time, to be honest, and not very together at all. He is just a great analyst, and I'm very lucky to have found him. He's 56, and has been doing this for 30 years- that much experience helps an awful lot.
The couch is really OK- you are with your therapist in a way you aren't when you're sitting up, and it allows you to regress to more child-like states without even noticing that it's happening. I wouldn't go anywhere near it for two months, and when I first lay down on it I was shaking like a leaf,- but now I really appreciate its advantages. I don't think I would be doing this work in quite the same powerful way if I were *up*. However, that's just me; other people have had whole, good analyses sitting up.
Pfinstegg
PS I wish I had done this in my twenties, too! However, I'm not sure therapy or analysis was as effective then as it is now. There was apparently a huge change in the early and mid-nineties, with the therapeutic relationship becoming the most important part of it.
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