Sublime

Just as surgeons must first learn anatomy, the future “Angst doctor” must first understand the relationship between the one who counsels and the one who is counseled. And, if I am to contribute to the science of such counseling, I must learn to observe the counseling relationship just as objectively as the pigeon’s brain.

Quand le professeur de psychologie, David Rosenhan, partit en congé sabbatique, j’ai accepté de reprendre son cours de premier cycle sur la psychopathologie, mais ce fut le dernier de ce genre que j’ai donné. J’ai peu à peu délaissé la science médicale, mon affiliation d’origine, pour les sciences humaines. Ce fut une période de passion, mais aussi

Sullivan believed that our struggles were interactional (meaning “relational”). He went so far as to say, “It’s the mark of a senior clinician that he or she is the same person in their living room that they are in their office.” We can’t teach patients to be relational if we aren’t relational with them.

Because therapists know that at first, each patient is simply a snapshot, a person captured in a particular moment. It’s like a photo of you taken from an unfortunate angle and with a sour expression on your face. There might also be a photo in which you’re glowing, caught opening a present or mid-laugh with a lover. Both are you in that fraction o

Can we develop systematic ways of helping, encouraging and, above all, ensuring that our people are skilled at client counseling in addition to being top technicians?

Combating shame requires more work than you might imagine.