Posted by Dinah on December 22, 2009, at 23:41:30
In reply to back to square one??, posted by workinprogress on December 22, 2009, at 0:31:44
Your title instantly made me think of that Monk episode that started with Dr. Kroger welcoming Mr. Monk to square two and ended with Mr. Monk saying "I guess I'm back to square one. It's nice to be home."
I think therapy can be that way. We move forward and we move back and retrench, then we inch forward again. You said you worked through things in a better way than you did before?
I don't know that I really understand the line where intellectualizing begins. I do know I need to go over and over and over the same ground in therapy. At first maybe he teaches me, but it takes a long long time for it to sink one level at a time until it becomes part of me. Abandonment is one of the most pernicious of those topics too.
So what do you think of this time in your therapy? Maybe deepening isn't the right way to describe it?
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