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087: Role-Play Techniques (Part 5) — Devil's Advocate

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The Devil's Advocate

The one rule in treating procrastination is don't ever try to help the patient because it's the therapist attempt to help a patient who procrastinates. Instead, you sit with open hands and if the patient can't really clobber this tempting thought, then you just say, well, maybe that isn't something we should be working on. That's called pterodontical inquiry. And it's also called sitting with open hands. Helping is not a tool that helps. So at any rate, can I talk you from it Sarah? Yes. You have all this fantasy about this expanding practice and all these wonderful things that you're going to do and that's all

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