Chapter from the book, Duped by Kottler and Carlson. Clients who taught Barry the value of believing clients and even the therapeutic impact of a big fat lie.
This document summarizes a qualitative study exploring service users' subjective experiences of an early intervention service for psychosis. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 service users about their life prior to engaging with the service, factors influencing recovery, and their experience of the recovery process. The therapeutic relationship was found to be the most commonly cited factor positively influencing recovery. Key aspects of the therapeutic relationship that helped recovery included clinicians taking a personable approach, forming a collaborative treatment partnership, and providing a client-focused service. A lack of these relationship elements was seen as negatively impacting recovery. The quality of the therapeutic relationship affected other recovery factors. Clinical implications include tailoring the relationship to better meet clients' needs.
Understanding the Process of Supported Recoverysdewattignar
Understanding the Process of Supported Recovery
Early Intervention Services (EIS) for Psychosis are informed by a recovery-orientated approach to well-being, as defined by clients. The present research used qualitative methodology to explore the experiences of individuals as they began the process of supported recovery within the care of an EIS. Twenty clients of an EIS were interviewed to elicit their narrative accounts of their life at the time of referral through to recovery with a focus on their perceived satisfaction with the EIS. Data were then subject to thematic analysis. Those themes arising marked the defining features of the process of recovery and delineated the positive and negative influences that services can impart to their clients during this process. The process of supported recovery appeared to be mitigated by a number of factors, which if considered can enhance clinician insight and build on the treatment partnership between service and client.
Mrs. N is a 52-year-old housewife who came to mental health services due to her son's substance abuse issues. During a session, she decided to discuss some of her own psychological problems and feelings of being overwhelmed by the demands of her family members. Her upbringing was very conservative and she felt a core belief of incompetence. The agreed treatment goal was to build assertiveness skills to deal with unjustified demands. However, during early sessions she frequently deviated from treatment and began idealizing the therapist, making little progress. These thoughts and feelings interfered with treatment progress. The document discusses how transference may be occurring and how the therapist can address it within a cognitive behavioral framework to preserve the therapeutic alliance
The Place of Arts Medicine in Diagnosis and Healing, Journal of Humanities Th...Diane Kaufman, MD
This document provides an overview of the role of arts in healthcare and medicine. It discusses the origins of integrating arts and healing from ancient myths and traditions. It then describes the author's personal and professional journey in developing an arts medicine practice, tracing influences from her family and how she came to integrate poetry, storytelling and expressive arts into her work as a child psychiatrist. It also outlines the development of an arts in healthcare program at a university hospital through collaboration between medical professionals interested in using arts to enhance patient care, recovery and healing.
This document defines and discusses the concepts of transference and countertransference in mental healthcare. Transference refers to a client unconsciously transferring feelings and attitudes from past relationships onto their healthcare provider. Countertransference occurs when a provider transfers their own feelings onto a client. Recognizing transference and countertransference is important for providers to understand what is happening in the client relationship and avoid acting out. Managing these phenomena involves maintaining appropriate boundaries, being reliable, and using reflection and supervision to avoid reactive responses.
This document summarizes a qualitative study exploring service users' subjective experiences of an early intervention service for psychosis. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 service users about their life prior to engaging with the service, factors influencing recovery, and their experience of the recovery process. The therapeutic relationship was found to be the most commonly cited factor positively influencing recovery. Key aspects of the therapeutic relationship that helped recovery included clinicians taking a personable approach, forming a collaborative treatment partnership, and providing a client-focused service. A lack of these relationship elements was seen as negatively impacting recovery. The quality of the therapeutic relationship affected other recovery factors. Clinical implications include tailoring the relationship to better meet clients' needs.
Understanding the Process of Supported Recoverysdewattignar
Understanding the Process of Supported Recovery
Early Intervention Services (EIS) for Psychosis are informed by a recovery-orientated approach to well-being, as defined by clients. The present research used qualitative methodology to explore the experiences of individuals as they began the process of supported recovery within the care of an EIS. Twenty clients of an EIS were interviewed to elicit their narrative accounts of their life at the time of referral through to recovery with a focus on their perceived satisfaction with the EIS. Data were then subject to thematic analysis. Those themes arising marked the defining features of the process of recovery and delineated the positive and negative influences that services can impart to their clients during this process. The process of supported recovery appeared to be mitigated by a number of factors, which if considered can enhance clinician insight and build on the treatment partnership between service and client.
Mrs. N is a 52-year-old housewife who came to mental health services due to her son's substance abuse issues. During a session, she decided to discuss some of her own psychological problems and feelings of being overwhelmed by the demands of her family members. Her upbringing was very conservative and she felt a core belief of incompetence. The agreed treatment goal was to build assertiveness skills to deal with unjustified demands. However, during early sessions she frequently deviated from treatment and began idealizing the therapist, making little progress. These thoughts and feelings interfered with treatment progress. The document discusses how transference may be occurring and how the therapist can address it within a cognitive behavioral framework to preserve the therapeutic alliance
The Place of Arts Medicine in Diagnosis and Healing, Journal of Humanities Th...Diane Kaufman, MD
This document provides an overview of the role of arts in healthcare and medicine. It discusses the origins of integrating arts and healing from ancient myths and traditions. It then describes the author's personal and professional journey in developing an arts medicine practice, tracing influences from her family and how she came to integrate poetry, storytelling and expressive arts into her work as a child psychiatrist. It also outlines the development of an arts in healthcare program at a university hospital through collaboration between medical professionals interested in using arts to enhance patient care, recovery and healing.
This document defines and discusses the concepts of transference and countertransference in mental healthcare. Transference refers to a client unconsciously transferring feelings and attitudes from past relationships onto their healthcare provider. Countertransference occurs when a provider transfers their own feelings onto a client. Recognizing transference and countertransference is important for providers to understand what is happening in the client relationship and avoid acting out. Managing these phenomena involves maintaining appropriate boundaries, being reliable, and using reflection and supervision to avoid reactive responses.
Transference is often manifested as an erotic attraction towards a therapist, but can be seen in many other forms such as rage, hatred, mistrust, parentification, extreme dependence, or even placing the therapist in a god-like or guru status.
Transference and countertransferenc example pokhrel,bharatBharat Pokhrel
Transference develops in therapy situations where the client feels inferior to the superior therapist, leading to dependence and regression. Transference can occur to some extent in client-centered therapy depending on how ambiguous the situation is and the client's readiness. Transference and countertransference can be positive or negative, stemming from similarities between the therapist and important people in the client's past that evoke old feelings and patterns. For example, a therapist may shy away from a distant client due to reminders of her father. A child psychologist found her past issues with her stepmother were interfering with her work until she resolved them through her own therapy.
The document discusses countertransference in spiritual direction relationships. It defines two main types of countertransference: helper activated, which stems from the helper's own past; and helper reactivated, which is the helper's response to the directee's transference. Helper reactivated countertransference can take the form of objective, concordant, or complementary countertransference. The document provides examples of each and emphasizes that recognizing and addressing countertransference is important for the relationship and can provide insights if explored properly. It concludes that countertransference is inevitable in close relationships and helpers must develop self-awareness and use supervision to best help directees.
Karen, a 36-year-old woman with a history of childhood abuse and unstable relationships, is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The therapist plans to use dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and mentalization-based treatment to address Karen's self-harming behaviors and improve her quality of life. DBT focuses on mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness skills. It has been shown to significantly reduce suicide risks and self-injury in BPD patients. The therapist will take a nonjudgmental approach, validate Karen's experiences, and encourage new interpretations and coping skills to reduce self-harming behaviors over the course of weekly individual and group therapy sessions.
This document discusses transference and countertransference in therapy. It defines transference as clients redirecting feelings from past relationships onto their therapist. Countertransference is the therapist's emotional response to the client. Both phenomena occur unconsciously and can help or hinder treatment, so therapists must understand and manage their own countertransference through self-reflection and supervision. The document provides examples of how transference and countertransference manifest and strategies therapists can use to address them, such as exploring the relationship dynamics in session and maintaining appropriate boundaries.
One Way Out of Enactment: The Patient's Differentiation from the Therapist James Tobin
This document discusses countertransference identification and enactment in psychotherapy. It presents a case study of the author's work with a 17-year-old patient. The author began to overly identify with the patient, seeing himself in the patient. This led to an enactment where the author came to know the patient in a restricted, self-centered way. However, with the patient asserting his own identity and differentiation from the author, this helped disrupt the enactment. The author argues that allowing patients to personalize themselves rather than be known impersonally can help therapists avoid overly narrow understandings and move towards recognizing patients' uniqueness.
The document discusses a study that interviewed 61 physicians who had experienced a serious medical error. It examines what types of talking did and did not help physicians cope with the error. Talking to patients and families, colleagues, mentors, and researchers was generally found to be helpful for processing emotions and learning from the mistake. In contrast, silence from superiors, not sharing with spouses or colleagues, and insensitive conversations tended to not help physicians cope. The study aims to understand how to help physicians grow after experiencing trauma and create a supportive culture for learning from errors.
My Philosophy, Pluralistic Philosophy & Transactional AnalysisAndy Williams
Workshop Presentation for UKATA National Conference - 24th April 2021. Andy Williams TSTA(P) explores how a psychotherapist or counsellor can understand their own philosophy in order to understand their own political and social identity - this vital when working in the intersubjective field.
This article describes the personal journey of a woman from Hong Kong named Alice Kan in learning to live with and manage her bipolar disorder. After initially being diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1991 and then receiving a changed diagnosis of bipolar disorder, Kan has come to accept her illness and see it as a "traveling companion". She discusses her experiences with medication and periods of being medication-free. Currently, Kan works as a legal secretary and volunteers teaching recovery approaches and advising on peer support training programs. She hopes to help reduce stigma around mental illness and encourage others to view their conditions as traveling companions that can be managed rather than disabilities.
This slide show is the summary of my research "How do DID clients handle therapy" combined with findings from my clinical practice about the treatment of DID.
The document outlines 12 general principles of mental health nursing care:
1) Accept patients unconditionally for who they are without judgment.
2) Use self-understanding to better understand patients and avoid increasing their anxiety.
3) Provide consistent behavior to increase patients' emotional security through a quiet, accepting environment.
4) Reassure patients in an acceptable, empathetic manner by truly listening and agreeing with their problems.
Sensate Focus is a technique used by therapists to treat sexual and relationship difficulties. It involves a series of non-demand touch exercises done in stages, beginning with non-genital touching and progressing to mutual genital contact. The goal is for partners to focus on temperature, pressure and texture sensations without expectations for arousal, pleasure or performance. This redirects attention from anxieties onto concrete touch experiences. Therapists guide clients through the stages, processing sessions to ensure a non-demand approach and manage distractions. Sensate Focus teaches people to respond naturally by managing sexual anxieties and preoccupations.
The document discusses vicarious trauma experienced by professionals who treat complex traumatic stress disorders. It defines terms related to vicarious trauma like burnout, countertransference, projective identification, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue. It discusses the symptoms of trauma and how it impacts helpers. It also discusses self-care and coping skills to manage vicarious trauma. The risks of vicarious trauma are discussed as well as signs and symptoms professionals may experience. The differences between burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, and depression are outlined.
Using a case study (the client’s name and other personal details have been altered for identity protection) as an example, this paper provides an overview of how I design and assist a client with a treatment regimen that uses a mixture/combination of clinical hypnotherapy, life coaching, and spiritual counseling/direction.
This document discusses Carl Rogers and client-centered therapy. It provides information on:
- The key principles of client-centered therapy including unconditional positive regard, empathy, and genuineness.
- Techniques used in client-centered therapy including reflection, active listening, and not being judgmental.
- Conditions needed for success including a relationship between counselor and client and the counselor displaying empathy and positive regard.
This document summarizes a qualitative study that interviewed 14 physicians about their experiences discussing end-of-life care with patients. The study used interpretive phenomenology to identify themes in the physicians' narratives. Key themes included rupture/interruption of normal practices, connection with patients, openness/vulnerability, presence with the patient, understanding as situated within a particular context, and what really matters to patients. The study found that recognizing personhood over medicalization and being open to patients' lived experiences can help physicians provide better end-of-life care.
This document outlines Tracee Pockett's personal philosophy of nursing. It discusses how a nursing philosophy guides a nurse's practice and interactions with patients. Pockett believes nursing requires both clinical skills and understanding patients' experiences. She discusses the importance of being fully present with patients, embracing change to improve care, and facing life and death realities in nursing. Jean Watson's caring theory also influences Pockett's view that nurses and patients influence each other through caring relationships.
A Very Victorian Asylum Challenge - Part 4Di Meeeee
Bruce Rauscher has completed his investigation into Simdon-Leys Home for Irrational and Insane Women at the request of Mr. Archibald Wilson. In his summary to Wilson, Rauscher reports finding serious issues at the facility, including a lack of proper staffing and treatment, unsafe and unsanitary conditions, and patients being allowed to freely come and go and potentially endanger others. Based on these findings, Rauscher believes the fees charged are unfair, treatment is subpar, and the facility should be closed and patients moved elsewhere. Wilson agrees the report warrants further action regarding the facility and its director, Dr. Gavigan.
It is important to connect with this intuition at all times in your life because it is more like the subconscious mind at work which is trying to guide you.
Transference is often manifested as an erotic attraction towards a therapist, but can be seen in many other forms such as rage, hatred, mistrust, parentification, extreme dependence, or even placing the therapist in a god-like or guru status.
Transference and countertransferenc example pokhrel,bharatBharat Pokhrel
Transference develops in therapy situations where the client feels inferior to the superior therapist, leading to dependence and regression. Transference can occur to some extent in client-centered therapy depending on how ambiguous the situation is and the client's readiness. Transference and countertransference can be positive or negative, stemming from similarities between the therapist and important people in the client's past that evoke old feelings and patterns. For example, a therapist may shy away from a distant client due to reminders of her father. A child psychologist found her past issues with her stepmother were interfering with her work until she resolved them through her own therapy.
The document discusses countertransference in spiritual direction relationships. It defines two main types of countertransference: helper activated, which stems from the helper's own past; and helper reactivated, which is the helper's response to the directee's transference. Helper reactivated countertransference can take the form of objective, concordant, or complementary countertransference. The document provides examples of each and emphasizes that recognizing and addressing countertransference is important for the relationship and can provide insights if explored properly. It concludes that countertransference is inevitable in close relationships and helpers must develop self-awareness and use supervision to best help directees.
Karen, a 36-year-old woman with a history of childhood abuse and unstable relationships, is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The therapist plans to use dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and mentalization-based treatment to address Karen's self-harming behaviors and improve her quality of life. DBT focuses on mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness skills. It has been shown to significantly reduce suicide risks and self-injury in BPD patients. The therapist will take a nonjudgmental approach, validate Karen's experiences, and encourage new interpretations and coping skills to reduce self-harming behaviors over the course of weekly individual and group therapy sessions.
This document discusses transference and countertransference in therapy. It defines transference as clients redirecting feelings from past relationships onto their therapist. Countertransference is the therapist's emotional response to the client. Both phenomena occur unconsciously and can help or hinder treatment, so therapists must understand and manage their own countertransference through self-reflection and supervision. The document provides examples of how transference and countertransference manifest and strategies therapists can use to address them, such as exploring the relationship dynamics in session and maintaining appropriate boundaries.
One Way Out of Enactment: The Patient's Differentiation from the Therapist James Tobin
This document discusses countertransference identification and enactment in psychotherapy. It presents a case study of the author's work with a 17-year-old patient. The author began to overly identify with the patient, seeing himself in the patient. This led to an enactment where the author came to know the patient in a restricted, self-centered way. However, with the patient asserting his own identity and differentiation from the author, this helped disrupt the enactment. The author argues that allowing patients to personalize themselves rather than be known impersonally can help therapists avoid overly narrow understandings and move towards recognizing patients' uniqueness.
The document discusses a study that interviewed 61 physicians who had experienced a serious medical error. It examines what types of talking did and did not help physicians cope with the error. Talking to patients and families, colleagues, mentors, and researchers was generally found to be helpful for processing emotions and learning from the mistake. In contrast, silence from superiors, not sharing with spouses or colleagues, and insensitive conversations tended to not help physicians cope. The study aims to understand how to help physicians grow after experiencing trauma and create a supportive culture for learning from errors.
My Philosophy, Pluralistic Philosophy & Transactional AnalysisAndy Williams
Workshop Presentation for UKATA National Conference - 24th April 2021. Andy Williams TSTA(P) explores how a psychotherapist or counsellor can understand their own philosophy in order to understand their own political and social identity - this vital when working in the intersubjective field.
This article describes the personal journey of a woman from Hong Kong named Alice Kan in learning to live with and manage her bipolar disorder. After initially being diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1991 and then receiving a changed diagnosis of bipolar disorder, Kan has come to accept her illness and see it as a "traveling companion". She discusses her experiences with medication and periods of being medication-free. Currently, Kan works as a legal secretary and volunteers teaching recovery approaches and advising on peer support training programs. She hopes to help reduce stigma around mental illness and encourage others to view their conditions as traveling companions that can be managed rather than disabilities.
This slide show is the summary of my research "How do DID clients handle therapy" combined with findings from my clinical practice about the treatment of DID.
The document outlines 12 general principles of mental health nursing care:
1) Accept patients unconditionally for who they are without judgment.
2) Use self-understanding to better understand patients and avoid increasing their anxiety.
3) Provide consistent behavior to increase patients' emotional security through a quiet, accepting environment.
4) Reassure patients in an acceptable, empathetic manner by truly listening and agreeing with their problems.
Sensate Focus is a technique used by therapists to treat sexual and relationship difficulties. It involves a series of non-demand touch exercises done in stages, beginning with non-genital touching and progressing to mutual genital contact. The goal is for partners to focus on temperature, pressure and texture sensations without expectations for arousal, pleasure or performance. This redirects attention from anxieties onto concrete touch experiences. Therapists guide clients through the stages, processing sessions to ensure a non-demand approach and manage distractions. Sensate Focus teaches people to respond naturally by managing sexual anxieties and preoccupations.
The document discusses vicarious trauma experienced by professionals who treat complex traumatic stress disorders. It defines terms related to vicarious trauma like burnout, countertransference, projective identification, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue. It discusses the symptoms of trauma and how it impacts helpers. It also discusses self-care and coping skills to manage vicarious trauma. The risks of vicarious trauma are discussed as well as signs and symptoms professionals may experience. The differences between burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, and depression are outlined.
Using a case study (the client’s name and other personal details have been altered for identity protection) as an example, this paper provides an overview of how I design and assist a client with a treatment regimen that uses a mixture/combination of clinical hypnotherapy, life coaching, and spiritual counseling/direction.
This document discusses Carl Rogers and client-centered therapy. It provides information on:
- The key principles of client-centered therapy including unconditional positive regard, empathy, and genuineness.
- Techniques used in client-centered therapy including reflection, active listening, and not being judgmental.
- Conditions needed for success including a relationship between counselor and client and the counselor displaying empathy and positive regard.
This document summarizes a qualitative study that interviewed 14 physicians about their experiences discussing end-of-life care with patients. The study used interpretive phenomenology to identify themes in the physicians' narratives. Key themes included rupture/interruption of normal practices, connection with patients, openness/vulnerability, presence with the patient, understanding as situated within a particular context, and what really matters to patients. The study found that recognizing personhood over medicalization and being open to patients' lived experiences can help physicians provide better end-of-life care.
This document outlines Tracee Pockett's personal philosophy of nursing. It discusses how a nursing philosophy guides a nurse's practice and interactions with patients. Pockett believes nursing requires both clinical skills and understanding patients' experiences. She discusses the importance of being fully present with patients, embracing change to improve care, and facing life and death realities in nursing. Jean Watson's caring theory also influences Pockett's view that nurses and patients influence each other through caring relationships.
A Very Victorian Asylum Challenge - Part 4Di Meeeee
Bruce Rauscher has completed his investigation into Simdon-Leys Home for Irrational and Insane Women at the request of Mr. Archibald Wilson. In his summary to Wilson, Rauscher reports finding serious issues at the facility, including a lack of proper staffing and treatment, unsafe and unsanitary conditions, and patients being allowed to freely come and go and potentially endanger others. Based on these findings, Rauscher believes the fees charged are unfair, treatment is subpar, and the facility should be closed and patients moved elsewhere. Wilson agrees the report warrants further action regarding the facility and its director, Dr. Gavigan.
It is important to connect with this intuition at all times in your life because it is more like the subconscious mind at work which is trying to guide you.
The document discusses the dangers of regressive or recovered memory therapy. It shares the story of Beth Rutherford, who in therapy came to believe she had been sexually abused by her father based on implanted false memories. Over 2.5 years of therapy using techniques like hypnosis and imagination, Beth came to believe she had been repeatedly raped and impregnated by her father as a child. However, it was later discovered that these were entirely false memories, as her father had had a vasectomy and a medical exam showed Beth was still a virgin. The document warns that therapists can use suggestive techniques to convince clients of false memories and stories, sometimes with devastating consequences like in Beth's case. It emphasizes the need for restraint in
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CutTheCrap
1. Chapter 21
Cut the Crap
Tall Tales and the
Value of Lies
Barry Duncan
Before I tell you about the most memorable lie of my career, there
is another story, a tawdry tale that inspired me to reflect about
truth in psychotherapy, that sets the stage. Richard, a 29-year-
old systems analyst, was referred by his company doctor because
of his increasing distress and frequent absences. When I greeted
Richard in the waiting room, he jumped out of his chair, got right
in my face—not three inches away—and demanded, “What are
you going to do for me?”
Richard didn’t look too good. The 60-cent therapy words would
be agitated and disheveled. Tension and distress characterized his
every move, and he looked as if he hadn’t slept in days—if he had
slept, it was surely in the clothes he was wearing. I tried to stay
calm and just invited him to accompany me to my office, where-
upon Richard raised his voice another notch and repeated his
question, and was once again too close for comfort.
I was definitely freaked at this point but I simply replied that I
didn’t know if I could do anything for him but that I would try
my very best. Richard finally sat down on my couch and told his
story, and the floodgates opened. Richard began suspecting his
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2. 128 Barry Duncan
wife, Justine, of having an affair after he discovered footprints in
the snow in his backyard. Consequently, he followed her, searched
her belongings, and kept track of her whereabouts. But he could
not find the incontrovertible evidence that he was sure existed.
Throughout Richard’s growing mistrust, Justine emphatically
denied the affair and told him he needed help. Perhaps in despera-
tion, Richard began to secretly check Justine’s underwear for signs
of semen, which would provide ironclad evidence of her unfaith-
fulness (given there was no sex with him).
Finally, Richard found stains on her underwear and took it
to a laboratory, which confirmed the presence of semen. Justine
still denied his accusations and insisted the semen was his. She
stepped up her efforts to involve others, telling friends, family,
his employer, and their own children, that Richard was sick and
in need of hospitalization. Justine rallied many to her cause and
filed for divorce. The company doctor concurred with her assess-
ment, as did the first provider that Richard saw, a psychiatrist who
offered an antipsychotic to ease Richard’s pain.
After Richard’s first unsuccessful encounter with the psychia-
trist, the company doctor was peeved. Perhaps hoping to admon-
ish Richard into sanity, he had yelled, “Cut the crap!” Richard
didn’t do much to disconfirm everyone’s assessment of his san-
ity. He was doing some pretty wacky things and looked more dis-
tressed and haggard with each passing day.
Richard told me that he was obtaining a DNA analysis of the
semen to see if it was a match with his. While scrutinizing my
every reaction, not in a threatening way but rather like a con-
demned man waiting for a sentence, he nervously asked me if I
believed him.
So was Richard psychotic or was Justine a liar? Subsequently, I
talked with Justine and invited her to therapy, but she declined.
She was very persuasive and pulled out all the stops to describe
Richard as hopelessly psychotic and in need of medical help, not-
ing that Richard’s sister was also schizophrenic and lived in a
group home. What would you say to Richard?
I told Richard that I did believe him. Richard allowed himself
a moment of relief, but pressed on and told me that the DNA test
was going to cost a lot of money. He then leaned forward, stared
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uncomfortably, and asked me the big question: Did I think he was
crazy for spending all that money?
I responded that peace of mind is cheap at any price. Richard
broke down and cried long and hard. He had been through a lot,
and was starting to believe what many had told him—that he was
paranoid and needed medication. After a while, we started talking
about what he needed to do to stop looking crazy while he waited on
the DNA results. If we took the affair as a given, and that her intent
was to make him look crazy as a loon, then everything he was doing
was playing right into her hands. Richard and I worked out a plan
to get normalcy back in his life: Return to work, start spending time
with his kids, and taking better care of himself. He did all of those
things and continued to bide his time as best he could.
Finally the results came in. Although Richard was greatly sad-
dened when the DNA results confirmed that the semen was not
his, he was not surprised. Ultimately, the whole seamy business
came to light, and Richard went about rebuilding his life. I was
both relieved and heartened by the results. I had taken a bit of
a risk to believe Richard. Justine threatened legal action against
me for not insisting on medication, and the company doctor sug-
gested I was acting unethically. In a sense I was vindicated along
with Richard, but moreover, I was heartened that my belief in him
seemed to make a difference regarding getting Richard back on
track in his life—regardless of the ultimate truth of his story.
I was so moved by Richard’s response, the depth of his wailing,
to my simple act of believing him and understanding his desire to
know what was going on that I have never forgotten it. Richard
taught me that I have to believe my clients, pure and simple.
Honestly, while Richard told me his story, I struggled with believing
him, which I knew was risky to our alliance. But I ultimately made
a conscious choice, during that session, to believe Richard—that
it didn’t matter how bizarre it seemed or how classically paranoid
it looked. I decided, at the very least, that my clients deserve to be
believed. That was a significant event in my development as a thera-
pist. From that day on, I no longer struggled with being a reality
police officer. And while it’s true that sometimes people do lie, even
maliciously, like Justine, I am willing to suspend disbelief until the
“facts” appear, or maybe even into perpetuity, like with Nora.
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Nora was a delightful 7-year-old who suddenly started soiling
herself when she was at school. The problem had persisted through
pediatrician visits and an EAP counseling service that ultimately
made the referral to me. In the first session, I saw Nora and her
mom, Kathleen, together for a while, but Nora didn’t say much
and Kathleen indicated that she wanted to talk to me privately.
So I escorted Nora to the waiting room and showed her the toys,
books, and TV. Kathleen expressed her concerns as well as her
belief that the encopresis was related to the death of Nora’s bio-
logical father, who was recently killed in a car accident. Although
Nora never knew her father, Kathleen believed the death was
largely responsible for Nora’s soiling problem. As I tried to wrap
my head around that, Kathleen spent most of the session talking
about how Nora had been abandoned by her father as well as all
the things that had been tried to help Nora with the problem.
I learned a lot but unfortunately it didn’t leave much time
for Nora. After commiserating with Nora about the toughness
of her problem and how embarrassing it was, I asked her what
she thought it was about and what she should do about it. Nora
couldn’t wait to tell me about this very mean third-period math
teacher she had, Mr. Miller, who wouldn’t let her go to bathroom.
Nora said that she repeatedly raised her hand to be excused but
that he ignored her and that was why she soiled her pants. I was
appropriately indignant and told Nora that this just wasn’t right.
Unfortunately, it was time to end the session and other clients had
already arrived. So I told Nora that we would get into this more in
the next session and figure out what to do about it.
The next week I asked Kathleen’s permission to start out with
Nora to both explore Kathleen’s hypothesis regarding the biologi-
cal father but also to hear the full story about mean Mr. Miller.
We played a couple of games together while we talked, but not
much came out of the discussion about her biological father. But
Nora came to life when I mentioned Mr. Miller. Nora hated this
guy. With unbridled energy, she described situation after situation
in which he always gave her a hard time and not others. Mr. Miller
particularly favored boys, and it was Nora who got in trouble
whenever boys would pick on her. She described one incident in
detail in which a boy next to her pulled her hair three times before
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she punched him, which resulted in Mr. Miller standing her in a
corner and writing her name on the board. Regarding the soiling
problem, Nora explained, she just couldn’t get to the restroom in
time. Mr. Miller, Nora said, allowed the kids to go to the restroom
by rows, and that was the way it was done, regardless of Nora’s
need to go quicker. Nora asked and was ignored; she waved her
arms and was overlooked; and she stood up to no avail. As Nora
told me about this heartless teacher, she became more animated,
demonstrating each of her failed attempts to get his attention with
all the attending frustration.
I couldn’t believe what a jerk this Mr. Miller was. I asked Nora
what she thought could be done to set this guy straight and offered
to call him (after I talked with Kathleen) to see if I could get to the
bottom of this. But Nora had a different idea. She thought it better
to have her mother write Mr. Miller a note. She even knew what
she wanted the note to say. It was important that it properly put
him in his place, essentially scolding him and telling him that he
had better let Nora go to the bathroom. This sounded like a good
plan, especially given that this solution was Nora’s and she was
participating in a meaningful way in our work together. I invited
Kathleen to join our discussion, and Nora and I presented the
note idea to her mom. Although Kathleen looked confused and
a bit out of sorts, we composed the note right there. I continually
checked out what we were writing with Nora to ensure that the
note captured her sentiments. Nora was very happy with the note
and put it in her purse to take to school to give to Mr. Miller. She
skipped happily to the waiting room. The note must have really
put that guy on notice because Nora never soiled her pants again.
But that’s not the whole story. After Nora and I shared her plan
with her mother, Kathleen asked once again to speak to me alone.
She told me that Nora’s math class was actually her fifth period
and that her teacher was a woman—in fact, Nora had no male
teachers; and, finally there was no Mr. Miller at all in the school!
Kathleen was a bit at a loss about what to do about this and was
worried that Nora’s lie reflected deeper psychological issues. I reas-
sured her that children have rich fantasy lives and that I wondered
if this was a way that Nora has devised to solve her soiling prob-
lem. I suggested that we implement the plan anyway to see what
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would happen and that we could immediately regroup if there was
no movement, so to speak.
So this impassioned, compelling story of the malicious Mr.
Miller, with all its attending nuance and detail, was a lie, a big
fat fabrication. But it worked. Nora defeated the poop problem.
Perhaps it was Nora’s way of “externalizing the problem” or sav-
ing face with an embarrassing situation, or maybe Kathleen was
right and it was Nora’s way of working through issues about her
biological father and his death. Who knows? Follow-up revealed
that the problem had vanished and that Nora stopped talking
about mean Mr. Miller. Although one can speculate many rea-
sons why Nora suddenly took control of her soiling problem, the
fact remains that the lie served a purpose and was somehow ther-
apeutic. Nora helped me to continue my reflection about lies and
the truth in psychotherapy. Most lies are decidedly not malicious
in nature, and it may very well be that clients have very good
reasons for lying, and perhaps, sometimes a lie can even be just
the ticket.
Barry L. Duncan, PsyD, is director of the Heart and Soul of
Change Project and author of The Heart and Soul of Change
and On Becoming a Better Therapist.