And what about state dependent memory? Would the client need to have a few
drinks to remember insights.........!!!!!!!
Audrey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Carney" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: Alcohol
> Dear Jo
>
> > She has a theory that a moderate amount of alcohol can result
> > in clients being less inhibited and therefore more inclined to
>
> > disclose. She believes counselling in this way speeds up
> > the 'healing' process.
>
> Drinking alcohol may well 'disinhibit the client and make them
> more inclined to disclose', but I am not sure that it is
> sufficient 'reason' to accept the person drinking alcohol before
> counselling. I have some reservations on, one, the ethics of
> counselling someone who has drunk sufficient to disinhibit
> themselves and may disclose information which they wouldn't
> normally do if sober; and, two, whether the person if they did
> drinkl sufficient to do so, would feel 'good' (or better) about
> it once they were sober again. I would go so far as to suggest
> that it could 'slow' or even stop the 'healing process'.
>
> This seems a rather appropriate topic for the time of year and
> at first sight looks as though it might stir up quite a
> discussion, so Season's Greetings to you and your supervisee.
>
>
>
> =====
> Best wishes
>
> Paul
>
> "All that I can do is tell the truth. No, that isn't so - I have missed
it. There is no truth that, in passing through awareness, does not lie.
> But one runs after it all the same." (Jacques Lacan)
>
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