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The Impossibility of Sex - Stories of the Intimate Relationship between Therapist and Client (Paperback)
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The Impossibility of Sex - Stories of the Intimate Relationship between Therapist and Client (Paperback)
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In this book I have struggled with certain words without a
satisfactory conclusion. I am unhappy about all the words used to
describe the person who visits the therapist's consulting room. Is
she or he a patient? Well, sometimes yes. Certain individuals like
that word because it captures for them the sense that there is
something wrong, an emotional illness. Is she or he a client?
Again, sometimes yes. Certain individuals like that word because it
connotes a kind of consultative process. Is she or he an analysand?
Certain individuals like this word because it conveys something
about the process of a therapy and it has a symmetry:
analyst-analysand. I myself find that all these words capture
something about the therapy and the therapy process but are
considerably less than perfect. In what follows I have chosen to
use the words interchangeably, as well as the words
psychotherapist, therapist and analyst. In the text, in the musings
in italics, I have usually referred to the primary carer in the
person's early life as mother. I realize that this is not always
the case. There are fathers who have primary responsibility for
their children from birth and there are relatives and nannies who
fulfil this role. Rarely in my clinical experience of seeing adults
has this role been an enterprise between two people in the way that
it is becoming for some couples with children today. We have yet to
see the effects of joint child-rearing on adult psychologies so I
have retained the notion of the mother or mother substitute, a
notion which will have to be expanded as the generations now
raising children make new arrangements between them. I have also
chosen for simplicity's sake to use the word 'she' throughout for
the personal pronoun rather than 'she or he'.
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