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Re: talking about your childhood in therapy

Posted by cbtish on August 1, 2008, at 16:39:19

In reply to talking about your childhood in therapy, posted by raisinb on August 1, 2008, at 15:54:10

Yes, your feelings are part of you in the here and now. I think it's unrealistic (and unreliable) for your therapist to expect you to detach from them and re-create childhood feelings.

I think a better approach is to reconstruct your childhood from factual memories. Then you can work out what your feelings must have been at that time from the reality of how you behaved. That way, you are making your ability in intellectual analysis work for you, instead of trying to suppress it.

I don't get the feeling your therapist is very good at this. :(


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