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Therapist: Start at the worst possible place. Adlerian Brief Therapy 16 Client: Well, I’m an old lady. I guess that’s as bad as you can get. I . . . [She starts with almost a depressing voice, in a monotone as if she is playing a tape. I want a shift in her awareness immediately, and I want to engage her, make contact, in a different manner.] Therapist: You know the problem is not that you are an old lady. The Client: Forty-five problem is that you are older than you want to be at this time. How old do you want to be? Therapist: Forty-five: one of my favorite years too. What was good about 45 for you? Client: Well, I don’t really know. I just said that. I guess I was kind of at peace with myself at that time when I think back on it. I was a school counselor and enjoying it. I loved the kids, and they loved me. I felt like I had a great life. Therapist: Okay, so regardless of what else might have been going on, there was contentment, and you knew what you were doing, so you had a sense of being capable. You had a sense of being useful and important and doing things of value and you knew how to do them. Comfort. Nice. So what is keeping that from happening now?
Adlerian Brief Therapy 17 Identifying the focus issue: Getting a behavioral description Client: I don’t know. I just feel unappreciated and unloved, and I don’t know. [This time, she speaks with real sadness in her voice, and I sense tears in her.] Therapist: And there’s some real sadness for you in that. Client: Yes. Therapist: Whom do you feel unappreciated by? Client: Just about everybody. [Her hurt is not global; it is specific, and I want to know the specifics.] Therapist: Of all the people you know who don’t appreciate you, who is most important you. Who have you lost that is most important? Client: My son. Therapist: Your son. Shall we stay with that for a while? Client: Ok. Therapist: Can you tell me a little about him and you, and what your relationship is like? Client: We were always very close. My son . . . I was divorced when he was six. I had another son who was four: so four and six. My older son kind of, I guess, took on the father role. I wasn’t aware of that at the time. I just went through life, and I didn’t think I was putting anything on him, but
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