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

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Client: They don’t get pleased. Therapist: And what do people do with doormats? Client: They step on them. Adlerian Brief Therapy 26 Therapist: Yeah. I probably have not said anything this hard to anyone Client: Um, hmm. in a long time. This is a hard thing for me to say to you, and I think it’s probably a hard thing for you to hear, isn’t it? Therapist: You see, initially I thought you were possibly grieving about Client: Quite true. the loss of your son, but now I know you were getting ready to grieve for the loss of yourself. Therapist: How old are you? Client: 65. Therapist: Only ten years older than me, and I’ll tell you something: you’re at the age, now, that, when I am your age, I plan on kicking butt and taking no prisoners. Now, what kind of person do you want to be? Client: I’ve always wanted to be bubbly. I’ve never been bubbly. And I envy people who are bubbly. [Note: “Bubbly” isn’t a behavioral description; it’s an evaluation.] Therapist: Do you? What do bubbly people do?

Adlerian Brief Therapy 27 Client: They can talk to everybody and say anything and not care what others think. Therapist: Can I stop for just a second? Client: Uh, huh. Therapist: I want to make a point here. This is just a gentler version of the question. What’s she afraid of? [With an audience, the therapist has an indirect means of talking to the client that at one and the same time lets her hear what is being suggested and also take a break from our work.] Audience: Rejection (comment from the audience). Therapist: Yes. She doesn’t have any confidence in her ability to be this person that she would like to be. She just spent probably a good 20+ years of her life watching all those people who do have it. She’s a measurer. She looks at it, and she says that’s them, this is me, and the gulf is too damn big to get over. Am I right? Client: That’s right. Therapist: Yeah. And so, if I start working with her right now on being a bubbly person, which of us is going to win that one? I think we need something else. Let’s see. It’ll help me if I can get a few small pieces of kind of objective stuff about you. Is that okay?

Client: They don’t get pleased.<br />

Therapist: And what do people do with doormats?<br />

Client: They step on them.<br />

<strong>Adlerian</strong> <strong>Brief</strong> <strong>Therapy</strong> 26<br />

Therapist: Yeah. I probably have not said anything this hard to anyone<br />

Client: Um, hmm.<br />

in a long time. This is a hard thing for me to say to you, and<br />

I think it’s probably a hard thing for you to hear, isn’t it?<br />

Therapist: You see, initially I thought you were possibly grieving about<br />

Client: Quite true.<br />

the loss of your son, but now I know you were getting ready<br />

to grieve for the loss of yourself.<br />

Therapist: How old are you?<br />

Client: 65.<br />

Therapist: Only ten years older than me, and I’ll tell you something:<br />

you’re at the age, now, that, when I am your age, I plan on<br />

kicking butt and taking no prisoners. Now, what kind of<br />

person do you want to be?<br />

Client: I’ve always wanted to be bubbly. I’ve never been bubbly.<br />

And I envy people who are bubbly. [Note: “Bubbly” isn’t a<br />

behavioral description; it’s an evaluation.]<br />

Therapist: Do you? What do bubbly people do?

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