Posted by Dr. Bob on March 18, 2014, at 0:18:36
In reply to Re: differentiation, posted by vwoolf on March 17, 2014, at 1:03:47
> > I try not to contribute, but I'm not always good at self-control.
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> :(
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> I think that is sad. I mean, I wish you could / would contribute more.
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> alexandra_k> I for one like Dr Bob's contributions
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> Phillipa> I think it would be very helpful if you did contribute when you feel moved to, not as a judge or administrator, but simply as a person like us, speaking from your own felt phenomenological world with all its distortions. In my own therapy it is what I have found most real and un-mad making. It is what has been important to me in meeting you. That I can become a person in relation to your personhood.
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> vwoolfThanks, maybe I should rephrase that:
I try not to contribute, but I'm not always good at self-control, but maybe that's not a bad thing.
Dinah did say herself:
> And yet he had an absolute genius and sort of a fearlessness in being authentic *within* the therapy room. In the space between us. I think that's what I needed to get better. The authenticity in that space. The lack of pretense or artificiality *in that space*, no matter how artificial the relationship may have been.
Bob
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