Posted by onceupon on August 2, 2008, at 13:03:39
In reply to Re: talking about your childhood in therapy, posted by antigua3 on August 2, 2008, at 10:40:45
I think I was actually the one who said:
"It seems like you don't necessarily need to know the source of your feelings to be able to work on them."
And I think you make a good point, that if you don't ever get back to the source, it will be difficult to change the patterns of responses to others that have been set up through early relationships (if my paraphrasing makes sense).
But I also like what raisinb said - that it would be nice to be able to work on both. It's hard, IME, not to feel discounted when bringing up my feelings about my relationship with my therapist and immediately being turned to look at my childhood. And I think that exploring my relationship with my therapist can be a direct route to exploring previous relationships too.
Great topic!
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