Posted by Dinah on September 28, 2008, at 13:17:55
In reply to Babble as a Teaching Tool, posted by Daisym on September 27, 2008, at 23:50:57
I'd never want my therapist to read Babble, but over time I've shared enough of Babble with him that he probably feels like he has. Better yet, I interpret for him when needed.
It's funny. When I first started sharing Babble with him, I think he really was surprised and startled at therapy from a client's point of view. But now he answers easily with a good understanding.
I've really enjoyed the information I've read lately on how infants aren't really little blank slates ready to be imprinted. And how the interaction between mother and child depends as much on the infant as it does the mother. How mothers can be entirely different mothers to different, dissimilar, children. It reminds me a lot of therapy. In some ways I think the individual therapist and client, and transference and countertransference, gets almost too much attention. While the dynamic relationship gets too little. Each therapist has a completely different therapy with each client. The space between the client and therapist is as important as the two participants.
At least that's what I've grown to think.
I've always been baffled by my attachment to my therapist that really can't be adequately explained by his personal characteristics. I think the answer lays in the dynamic relationship. In the space between us.
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