Posted by raisinb on February 13, 2009, at 20:24:04
In reply to I need a voice coach, posted by Dinah on February 13, 2009, at 12:05:21
You know, Dinah, I once read an article by a renowned psychologist about one of his/her patients. The therapist remarked that, during a certain stage of therapy, the patient tended to make the therapist sleepy, because she was talking in a very soothing, peaceful voice. They spoke about it and realized that the patient was trying to soothe the therapist because of the particular developmental stage she was in. I wish I could remember the story more exactly. But the basic idea was that the patient either needed to be mothered, or was trying to "give back" to the therapist all the "mothering" she had received.
Also--the important part--the therapist was not bored or annoyed by this at all--s/he found it interesting and was delighted to figure out where the patient was. So it was not at all a rejecting response on the therapist's part.
Maybe you don't need a voice coach. Maybe you and your therapist just need to have fun analyzing for awhile :)
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