Making Contact: Leston Havens on the Uses of Language in Psychotherapy
Irvin Yalom enjoins therapists not to share insights they have into their patients psyches unless doing so will be connecting. The aim for a good therapist isn’t to say the truth but to say the truth that will also be healing. Since it is his view that the relationship itself is the cause of healing, a truth that does not bring close is... See more
Sublime Zettels January 2025
The act of interpretation, aside from its content, expresses collaborative concern; it comes out of identifying with the patient – being able, to some extent, to imagine what it is like to be that person at that moment – and then the more unexpected consequence of ‘believing in’ what he needs.
Adam Phillips • Winnicott
