Posted by Wittgensteinz on October 30, 2008, at 19:05:19
In reply to Re: poor wording » Wittgensteinz, posted by lucie lu on October 30, 2008, at 14:46:34
Lucie,
Maybe I should be starting a new thread but your mentioning of 'enactment' has me intrigued. I did a quick search and only come up withstuff about marriage/family therapy.
When you mention enactment do you mean that in the therapy the therapist and patient inadvertently take on the roles of that of the patient to an important care-giver in their earlier life? I bring my troubled past relationships into the room and I project them onto my therapist - the idea is that we analyse them of course, but would an 'enactment' be that somehow my therapist ends up re-enacting them with me, repeating aspects of the role and failings of that earlier care-giver, and thus reinforcing the impact/trauma of them in the first place? I'm a bit worried this explanation might be embarrassingly off the mark but never mind.
Don't worry to be specific about me and my history/case - but could you give an explanation of enactment per se?
Thanks,
Witti
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