Posted by AuntieMel on July 26, 2004, at 15:29:17
In reply to Re: I'd like to discuss something, posted by fires on July 26, 2004, at 13:57:27
Good articles. I'm not denying that this stuff happens. But I am contending that it is not the norm - or they wouldn't be writing articles, would they?
I think that method of therapy aside, we can agree that the therapists themselves in these articles failed the 'ability' part of my premise.
I'm not even sure I'd call the out-of-the-womb type of "therapy" psychotherapy. Or any other "therapy" that is mostly physical in nature. And smothering wouldn't be called a good outcome, no matter how much attachment the girl felt before she died. BUT, the same article had therapists that said true rebirthing can be therapudic. And I don't have enough data to dispute that.
And I'll certainly agree that a lot of the 'recovered memory' cases that hit the news probably aren't true memories. Especially the ones involving a therapist like the therapist in the article you posted. In fact, I would say it is downright unethical to plant suggestions in a client's head. My family has had people in it with what I believe to be bogus recovered memories, so I know how bad it can be.
But that doesn't mean there aren't any recovered memories. I know I've successfully blocked out memories of things that were traumatic. At least temporarily - they come back on their own when someone else in the family is talking about the situation. Is that a recovered memory? I would say yes.
I will grant you some methods are used more frequently than others, due to them working best on the largest population. But I won't rule out that any method, properly used, doesn't have a place for at least a small percentage of the population.
So, again, what I posed still seems to be valid to me. It contains 1) a client 2) a compatible AND experienced therapist 3) a method, whatever it is - or no method at all, and 4) the other three combine to something that works.
And I still say that if you have all these ingredients which method you use is moot.
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