Posted by alexandra_k on July 29, 2013, at 0:34:24
In reply to How therapy works, posted by Twinleaf on July 28, 2013, at 10:59:54
> I have just finished reading "in the Shadow of the Tsunami" by Philip Bromberg, a prominent relational analyst. There is a fascinating foreword by Allan Schore. (Affect Regulation). They make a very strong case that it is the right hemisphere of the patient communicating with the right hemisphere of the therapist which increases the patient's ability to deal with stressful emotions - much as a good-enough mother helps a baby learn to tolerate them. They make a good case that non-verbal communication is at least 60% of all communication, and they also encourage therapists to avoid left hemisphere interpretive communications. Over-all, I think many of us are aware that therapy is moving in a more interpersonal, emotion-based direction, but this is fascinating reading for anyone interested in its leading edge.
I am extremely interested in this. My last therapist clearly subscribed to something like this. And there were aspects of this view in previous therapists... The ones I found the most helpful, for sure.
In light of this view...
What would you (they) make of the theraputic potential of a place like Babble or the idea of text based (or even phone based) therapy?
My therapist was highly skeptical to start with.
He viewed my emails to him, or my writings that I would take along and encourage him to read to be avoidance strategies. My avoiding being present with him in the present moment.
Maybe there was something to that...
But I also think that he failed to see the theraputic potential for... Well... Not Cognitive Restructuring exactly... But, er, perhaps some kind of reframing. Perhaps...
Surely there has got to be a middle way...
Otherwise... Massage therapy anyone???
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