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

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Therapist: What happened? Client: My feet got burned. Therapist: How’d you feel? Client: Hurt. Therapist: Hurt. Okay, one last one. Adlerian Brief Therapy 32 Client: Let me think. My mind’s blank. [pause] . . . I remember in first grade I was in a play, and it was a great big auditorium, and it was packed with people, and so I was talking really, really loud, and it was about mice running around. And I got up on this chair, stood on the chair, and I gave this long speech and realized it was the wrong one. Therapist: The wrong speech? Client: The wrong line. And so I yelled out “Oh no” and turned around and gave the right speech, the right line. Therapist: How’d you feel? Client: I felt . . . and everybody laughed . . . and I felt okay. I felt like I had fixed it. Therapist: Good for you. If you hadn’t had that memory, I would have been sitting here until we found one. You’ve been doing [interpreting early memories] for some time. What do you think about the first two memories you had?

Adlerian Brief Therapy 33 Client: Well, I’ve analyzed them and analyzed them. I can’t . . . I’m not sure. Maybe I want somebody to save me, or when I do things on my own, I get in trouble, and it hurts me. Therapist: Ok. I might have said it a little differently, but we’re in the same ballpark. What do you get from the third memory? Client: I can make mistakes, and I’m still okay. Re-orientation: Shifting the Underlying Rules Therapist: Now we’re at the critical juncture of life. If you would like Client: Okay. to be a person, you will have to spend more time with the third memory, and less with the other two, and if you want to be dead you have to join with the other two. Therapist: How would a really tough broad . . . ? (she smiles) You like this already don’t you? How would a really tough broad handle herself after she mistakenly tramps through the coals? Client: I don’t know, put on boots. Therapist: Yep, let’s say you didn’t have any. Let’s say you actually got yourself into it; you’re running across hot coals, and in the middle you realize this was a mistake, how does a tough broad handle it? Client: Get out of there.

Therapist: What happened?<br />

Client: My feet got burned.<br />

Therapist: How’d you feel?<br />

Client: Hurt.<br />

Therapist: Hurt. Okay, one last one.<br />

<strong>Adlerian</strong> <strong>Brief</strong> <strong>Therapy</strong> 32<br />

Client: Let me think. My mind’s blank. [pause] . . . I remember in<br />

first grade I was in a play, and it was a great big auditorium,<br />

and it was packed with people, and so I was talking really,<br />

really loud, and it was about mice running around. And I<br />

got up on this chair, stood on the chair, and I gave this long<br />

speech and realized it was the wrong one.<br />

Therapist: The wrong speech?<br />

Client: The wrong line. And so I yelled out “Oh no” and turned<br />

around and gave the right speech, the right line.<br />

Therapist: How’d you feel?<br />

Client: I felt . . . and everybody laughed . . . and I felt okay. I felt<br />

like I had fixed it.<br />

Therapist: Good for you. If you hadn’t had that memory, I would have<br />

been sitting here until we found one. You’ve been doing<br />

[interpreting early memories] for some time. What do you<br />

think about the first two memories you had?

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