Recording Available – Conference The Use and Abuse of Power in Therapy
Valerie Sinason – BETWEEN THE KING OF THE CASTLE AND DIRTY RASCAL: THE JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE
When False Memory Groups began to attack trauma therapists in the 1990s, the key illogical thrust was that therapists had the power to install false narratives into their patients, including the estranged adult children of Group members. Yes, therapists could try to do that if they were abusers and, as we know, there is a small percentage of abusers in every profession. However, outside of that, we answered that if we were so very powerful all our patients would have got better! When working with trauma, dissociative identity disorder and disability the terms “power” and “therapy” do not sit comfortably together. And yet, in working relationally with people whose worlds have been sadistically contaminated or destroyed, as well as trying to examine errors and misattunements, we also need the power of truth, understanding and attachment within a safe-enough structure.
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