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Adlerian Brief Therapy 36 Therapist: They look the same as everybody. Now, up until a few weeks ago, you were the Will Rogers of Butte, Montana. You never met anybody you didn’t like and who didn’t like you. It’s true, isn’t it? Client: It’s more than a few weeks. It’s been several years. And my brother now is turned against me too. [Her last statement is an invitation to de-focus that the therapist cannot follow.] Therapist: Well, this is also true: When it rains it pours. The good news is that it also works the other way around. When you turn one thing around, whole bunches of things start to work out. Now, what were the skills that you used all those years in school counseling to win over everybody from the brilliant student to the snot? What were those skills that you used? Client: I just did what I could. Therapist: Like what? Client: I followed the rules. Therapist: That’s important. What else? Client: I reached out to others, and I was there for them. Prescribing new behavioral rituals through therapeutic experience Therapist: Okay, let’s try something. I will do a really bad version of Client: I hope not. your possible future daughter-in-law.
Therapist: And you do your skills. “You’ve ruined everything.” Adlerian Brief Therapy 37 Client: [The client leans forward, takes a deep breath, and focuses.] Therapist: Now, before you start, I loved what you just did. What did Client: I moved in. you just do? [Performance is enhanced by awareness and full contact with oneself and one’s energy.] Therapist: Yes, what else? Client: I looked you in the eye. Therapist: Yes, what else? Client: I took a breath. Therapist: Yes, and that’s the difference between living and dying. Client: I don’t know. People who are living have to take a breath. So the first thing you do is take a breath in; then you lean forward, and you put all of your energy into your center just like you did. Now what do you have to say? Therapist: Start over. Because this is what your breath was like when I just asked you what you had to say. [Therapist takes in shallow breath and holds it.] I want you to breathe. Keep in mind you have been handling people just like this, even though they haven’t seemed like this: You’ve been handling
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