That's a great film, too. ; ) Well actually not GREAT, but the story is lovely, a bit like The Rainmaker in that faith in someone makes them the thing that they claim to be.
In the psychotherapy I am studying, person-centred, the theory is that providing Unconditional Positive Regard (just a fancy way of saying unconditional love) and empathy creates an environment that allows the person to integrate, own the various parts of themselves, and therefore make better choices that reflect who they really are in totality.
It's so simple.
Wouldn't even be necessary if we didn't live in such a cold cold world.
I look at psychotherapy as a kind of magic, and I don't mean that like witchcraft or David Blaine either .. I mean ... the alchemy of human relationship and contact. Truly being intimate with a person, even within the constraints of that relationship, is a powerful healing force. It is touching reality at it's deepest level ... we can get there gazing at the stars or whatever else, too ... but certainly to be there with another person is phenomenal.
The constraints, the formality, the order of it ... that is necessary in our world, but the important fact of one person sitting in that room to be of service to the other, to provide something deep that they need ... that is old-fashioned shamanism as far as I'm concerned, in the best possible interpretation of the word. Healing.
I hope I am up to the task. Am applying for a position with a domestic abuse centre, as a trainee of course because I still have another year to go on my programme. Watch this space to see if I get it and if so, if I'm still waxing poetic after a few months of front line care.
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