When I was at the height of my problems, I was given a beta-blocker. I
shouldn't have been - I'm asthmatic - but I think it snapped me to
enough to form a plan. That plan included seeing a therapist, whom
I've been seeing for the past 2 years. It was out of this, that I
faced the graveyard of my then marraige, my dissatisfaction with my
"career" and other things.
For me it's been a good experience, partly because I embrace it fully,
partly as you say it's given me the validity of my own experience and
perceptual and emotional complexity. That is my experience precisely.
As a result, I have begun to explore other areas of my creativity. I
have begun to have genuine interaction with people. I am, literally, a
different person to the one I was three years ago, to the extent I
suspect people I knew from those days would not recognise me.
Certainly, if you look across my email history on poetryetc and
britishpoets, and you compare postings then and now, there are still
signs of the old me hanging around but there are also, I think, signs
of growth, signs of actually reaching out to contact people. So, yes,
therapy can be bad and there are a lot of caveats but it can have a
positive effect as well.
regards
Roger
On 4/2/06, Rebecca Seiferle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
<snip lots of interesting stuff>
> To be fair, I do think that therapy often helps,
> particularly unconventional therapies like this
> Narrative Therapy, though there are others, and even
> conventional therapies can help depending upon the
> practicioner. When therapy does help, it helps
> precisely because the method grants the person the
> validity of his or her own experience and perceptual
> and emotional complexity, rather than imposing another
> language or interpretative mode upon such a person,
> which is, often, part of the trouble in the first
> place,
>
> best,
>
> Rebecca
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