Dear Gerald and all,
I am interested to know how others are handling the many questions I have
received from clients about my own personal reaction to the WTC attacks and
subsequent situation. I can see it is really important for some clients to
know where I am on the issue but feel quite uncomfortable disclosing much as
my feelings and reactions are in a constant state of flux, albeit that fear
is a constant (at varying degrees). We have lost any semblance or illusion
of shared safety now with people being willing to bypass their own survival
mechanism.
However, it is of course an area fraught with difficulties therapeutically,
especially given the problems which have emerged on this list where we are
all trained to explore and work through...!!
All comments/responses welcome. (I am taking it on a client by client basis
and being selective according to that as to how I respond but I wonder
whether I should become psychodynamic on this one and not disclose???!!)
All the best
Audrey
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