Posted by Pfinstegg on January 12, 2006, at 15:33:05
In reply to Re: Pfinstegg » Pfinstegg, posted by annierose on January 12, 2006, at 8:48:34
Thank you for your wonderful understanding and support, Annie. I am still amazed how the new therapist was able to instill a sort of automatic self-comforting mechanism in me. Before, I would find myself reminding myself to comfort my parts; now the one simple thing we did in our first session is just THERE- inside and comforting all the time. I told my analyst today how amazed I was, and he said that she knew a lot of the newest neuroscience, as well as a lot about ego states, and was very much respected in the analytic community. I am really stunned, as what she did seemed so simple, and yet it helped a lot.
I stopped the art therapy for the time being, as it's really a lot, time-wise, and financially, to have THREE therapies going on at the same time. The art therapy was very helpful, though- a lot of shocking, unconscious things seemed to keep turning up on paper, whether I wanted them to or not! If there was a difficulty, it was that the art therapist was not so well trained to contain and process what came up as the analysts are.
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