Saturday Salon: I Can Do It All Myself: Working with Self Sufficient Patients

This salon will focus on our patients who have a hard time letting us help them. From a very young age they are used to figuring everything out on their own. When these patients enter therapy there is a longing for help, a hope that someone can come along side of them and at the same time there’s a wall that goes up due to feelings of shame and weakness.  The wall is comprised of cynicism, negativity and distain of needs and desires just to name a few. 

We will consider: the false self-structure, the obstructive object, feeling stuck, avoidance of feelings, transference and countertransference.