Thank you Dr. Coughlin for trying to help and enlighten people like me.

I appreciate your work, in fact I find it helpful.

@patriciacoughlinphd1852

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Hi Patricia, thanks for this clarification! I've been watching your videos and I'm reading two of your books! I have other styles psychodynamic training and what I liked the most about your style and the ISTDP model is the emphasis on technique vs only theory. Also the idea of trial therapy in which the story is explored after working with the defenses has also caught my attention (and not as a journalistic interview)... I think that's how we began to intervene from the very beginning moment and increases the motivation to treatment. Unlike the traditional style of having 3 or 4 interviews and then giving a ”devolution”, which in my opinion greatly intellectualizes the process.

@patriciacoughlinphd1852

10 ай бұрын

We need three areas of competence - a solid grounding in theory, with techniques that flow from and are internally consistent with that theory AND are supported by research evidence.

Yes. I met someone once well call her Mary. She did say she had "fallen in love" with her therapist. I myself had some counselling and did make a friend for a short time of my counselor. I even had her home phone number and address. I never took advantage of the last. Eventually I married and left therapy. And, last I heard she to had married and raised a family. I can't say that I was first she gave personal information to about herself (Val) or how that went but as for me I respected her disclosures.

@patriciacoughlinphd1852

Жыл бұрын

A therapist has no business giving patients her home address and phone number. There are ethical standards which make clear distinctions between personal and professional behavior. It is not up to the patient to take responsibility for professional boundaries, but that of the therapist.

@staciwashington3212

Жыл бұрын

@@patriciacoughlinphd1852 yes. Later that therapist I heard had a stalker. I was long removed from therapy by then but we both went to the same university as graduate student.

@55linka

5 ай бұрын

@@patriciacoughlinphd1852 what if they see their clients at home and they give phone number to contact outside of sessions? Do you realize how bad the attachment pain gets?I think you have no idea...if you are having panic attacks middle of the night because you know they will abandon you? Just being able to write to my therapist anytime gives me so much comfort! ...and I dont write him (!) unless things get very bad! I really dont obsess about this particular person because he IS available and he is caring. are the boundaries about YOU or your client?

Can this occur in other relationships where one person is the authority figure, i.e, teachers?

@patriciacoughlinphd1852

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely - it happens all the time.

It seems you’re defining transference neurosis as falling in love with the therapist. However I understand the transference neurosis as being any transferential manifestation of neurosis (which may be love but equally may be a range of other emotions)

@patriciacoughlinphd1852

5 ай бұрын

Indeed it is - it can take many shapes, as you suggest.

How would a transference neurosis be resolved? Does this mean a patient should withdraw from therapy completely? Perhaps not a candidate for psychotherapy?

@patriciacoughlinphd1852

Жыл бұрын

It is up to the patient to honestly communicate their feelings and fantasies and up to the therapist to use them therapeutically - seeing the pattern in them - and getting to the source of it.

@55linka

5 ай бұрын

I might be one of those people. My therapist could never help me on the attachment stuff. He told me he is not my husband or my friend (I never ever implied anything sexual or anything outside of scope of therapy, I just wanted more sessions) . then he kicked me out.