In the psychotherapy relationship, the therapy itself is about the client’s needs while the fee concerns the therapist’s need to earn a living. When the fee is reduced due to financial hardship, the client still receives what he or she needs but the therapist must make do with less.
Category: The Psychotherapy Relationship
The Interpretation of a Dream
An example of dream interpretation with a client in psychotherapy, with some thoughts about Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams.
Why Empathy Fails
In order to empathize with another person, you have to recognize that he or she actually exists apart from and without specific reference to you. Our ability to tolerate separateness largely determines how well we are able to empathize with others.
Working with Borderline Personality Disorder
What experience has taught me about borderline personality disorder — in my work with clients from my practice as well as managing the volatile and difficult man who lives inside me.
Defense Mechanisms II: Denial
Like all defense mechanisms, denial has its normal and constructive uses: by denying the awareness of unavoidable death, for instance, we’re able to continue with our daily lives.