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Two Approaches To Adlerian Brief Therapy - Buncombe County ...

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<strong>Adlerian</strong> <strong>Brief</strong> <strong>Therapy</strong> 19<br />

Client: Well, that’s what I have never been able to understand. It<br />

seems to me that family members can be close and do things<br />

together as long as it is…<br />

Therapist: You weren’t still diapering him.<br />

Client: No, no, and I wasn’t sleeping with him. <strong>To</strong> me it seemed<br />

okay.<br />

Therapist: Then why the hell did you listen to those people?<br />

Client: Well, I didn’t. And I kept going. And when I got my<br />

doctorate he helped me through it. I emailed him every<br />

paper I wrote, except my sex therapy papers.<br />

Therapist: [smiling with a twinkle in his eye] You have to draw the line<br />

somewhere.<br />

Client: [laughs] He would critique them and send them back to me,<br />

and I felt like I really had support there. He really<br />

supported me through my doctorate. I would have never<br />

made it without him, probably. And then, I came back to<br />

Montana, and we continued seeing each other from time to<br />

time and had fun together and so forth. All of the sudden,<br />

he got this girlfriend who hated me. I didn’t know she was<br />

even a girlfriend. She was someone he was helping out. She<br />

was quite a bit younger than he, and she needed a lot of<br />

help. So, he was helping her and still, when he would invite

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