I think it's partly to do with experience now so 20 years into the work I have a sense of who I might be effective with. It's not necessarily that I don't like that person or I don't want to work with them but really am I the best fit for them. My preference to working with certain people has definitely changed over the years and become more intersectional. When we start out as therapists we think we can work with everybody but of course we can't not effectively.
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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