You hand your friend the beautifully wrapped gift. In delight, your dear one excitedly strips off the bow and wrapping, lifts the box, and then says in a crestfallen voice, “I can’t wear wool; it makes me itch. Here, you can have it back.” »
What do you say to a client whose presenting issue is deep angst over the question of relationship? Whether the person is in a primary relationship and deeply unhappy, questioning whether to stay or to go, or the person longs for that primary relationship in order to feel happy and fulfilled, the issue is a profoundly unsettling one to those caught up in it. How are we, as mental health professionals, to be with clients’ inner conflicts of the partnering kind? What should our clients know when considering whether to enter — or to leave — a relationship? And how can we know if their impulse toward partnering or toward singlehood is healthy or not for them? We entertain the questions of what we might be looking out for with such clients, and which notions/modalities may be ... »
Your fitness tracker reminds you to walk away from your computer every hour to get needed movement – and then counts how many steps you do all day. In conjunction with the app on your phone, it tells you how well you’ve slept – or not, and whether you’ve gotten your heart rate up enough on your daily run. Other apps on your computer remind you when it’s time for meetings, help you focus to meet deadlines, or give you a run-down on the weather. Even Facebook, which is supposed to be just for fun connection, lets you know when you need to say “Happy Birthday” to a friend. Numerous social media sites tell you how many “likes” your posts get. In short, we live in a world creativity consultant Jeffrey Davis describes as increasingly “app-happy” and “metric-hungry” (2017). »
At the heart of narrative therapy — and the crucial aspect distinguishing it from more empirically-based therapies (such as CBT) — is the question of how we can know reality. Empiricism tells us that there a single “truth” waiting for us to discover it. Narrative therapists, on the other hand, recognise that the operative word is “realities”, as individuals, families, and cultures each come to create their own. »
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