I suppose that it's better for you to make eye contact I think it makes you more vulnerable whereas if you can kind of gaze up at the ceiling I think you are able to dance around things a bit more. In those really intense moments with a patient when they're sharing something really deep and intimate there can be a feeling of love. My patients affect me deeply and there is a moment where one says I love you there isYeah yeah it's beautiful it is a beautiful moment you talk about.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie talks to author and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung. Maxine joins us to discuss her latest book, What Women Want, an intimate examination of female desire.
The two also discuss the importance of making time for yourself, the impulse to keep busy for fear we may break down, why many of our coping mechanisms are developed in childhood, and why eye contact is essential when sharing intimate information.
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