I love this. The idea that it has to come from the present, from the here and now with the patient, not prefabricated- that reminds me of Bion and his laconic psychoanalytic paper, Notes on Memory and Desire.
When I went to therapy a few years ago, I announced I needed (quoting myself from memory) "not just some CBT, I need some real Freud shit, like really digging into my past and stuff!"
I don't think we actually did "some real Freud shit", but I got MUCH better therapy than the useless CBT I'd been sent to years before this (with a therapist who said she didn't really know psychosis but I should do the CBT for job stress - as if being stressed at work could be treated independently from dealing with psycho-schizo-something.)
I love this. The idea that it has to come from the present, from the here and now with the patient, not prefabricated- that reminds me of Bion and his laconic psychoanalytic paper, Notes on Memory and Desire.
Nice piece thanks.
When I went to therapy a few years ago, I announced I needed (quoting myself from memory) "not just some CBT, I need some real Freud shit, like really digging into my past and stuff!"
I don't think we actually did "some real Freud shit", but I got MUCH better therapy than the useless CBT I'd been sent to years before this (with a therapist who said she didn't really know psychosis but I should do the CBT for job stress - as if being stressed at work could be treated independently from dealing with psycho-schizo-something.)