smilekvm.blogg.se - Maybe you should see someone

I don’t mean that we’ve experienced the same things, but that we’ve struggled with the daily problems of living.

I don’t think anybody wants to go and talk to a brick wall. As I say in the book, despite my training and my credentials and all of those things that are important, I feel like my most important credential is that I’m a card-carrying member of the human race. Which of course we want: We want someone with expertise, that’s why we’re going to them. There’s this idea - which I think keeps a lot of people out of therapy, actually - that the therapist is this expert up on high.

I think it’s a very new book for me and probably for the reader. For you, it’s obviously important you show the other side and how it affects the therapist. In the books I’ve read or know of that are written by therapists, the focus - insofar as the reader gets to go into the therapy room - is really on the patient and how it impacts the patient.