My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Simple Therapy
The simpler the therapy, the more readily does the process become for the clients. There is no need to know everything in order to make significant changes and causes (specifically when it is more speculation than fact) need not be pursued. Therapy should offer points of reference, true statements as universal as possible in their application; and freedom to question what choices are truly available. In the very beginning ownership by the client has to be established, as does the therapist's role as consultant and sometimes teacher -- but not as healer, and never as magician.
Labels:
change,
choices,
questions,
roles,
simplicity,
therapy,
truth,
uncertainty
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