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How Therapist Identity Shapes Healing
- Who the therapist thinks they are shapes how they see the client and limits change.
- Identifying someone with a pathology reinforces that identity and makes transformation harder.
Treat Clients As Whole Humans
- Treat clients as fellow human beings caught in dilemmas rather than as fixed pathologies.
- Avoid professional labeling that invests identity in the problem and blocks change.
Holding Awareness With A Hospitalized Man
- Ram Dass described holding presence with a hospitalized, medicated man by 'holding your hand at the level of awareness.'
- He emphasized contacting awareness behind mood fluctuations as the real therapeutic contact.