Posted by garnet71 on July 1, 2009, at 20:44:03
In reply to Re: analyst seems to not be working » garnet71, posted by deerock on July 1, 2009, at 20:26:00
For example - maybe in terms of 'success' and 'failure' in giving in to your cravings, parellel to the success and failure of the therapy itself?
Can you explain what you mean by that?
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Hmm. I don't know how to explain it more concretely as I mostly sense it in the abstract.
Example: what thought patterns are emerging in your "disagreeing with yourself".
In terms of the THERAPY failure or success:
- I'm such a failure so no one can possibly help me, or I should just quit this therapy/give up
- I won't allow someone to help me; I don't deserve it
- She can't help me because she is not a good therapist
--------------------------------Similar/parallel to your thoughts/emotions, how you manifest SELF-HARMING behavior failure or success (such as not giving in to drug use):
- I'm such a failure..so I might as well abuse myself/use drugs; give up
- I won't allow someone to help me (so I can't stop using drugs); I'm not good enough to be helped
- She can't help me (if I had a better therapist I could stop using drugs).Maybe she's prompting you to uncover, or discover, via insight your underlying personality emotional drives and impulses, by assessing how you argue with yourself - in terms of linking the therapy decision/arguement with how you argue with yourself about using drugs/harming yourself?
Sorry if this wasn't helpful, I'm just thinking out loud here.
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