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Heidi - Isolation feeds go-it-alone; need help to think about taping, including how will
taping help (my client)?
Mary - Goals were to understand the therapeutic relationship and how to use it more
effectively; useful to confront my own feelings (including acknowledging my own
anxiety) and to not just work more.
Questions and Learning Edges that come in Session 2
(I am aware that the phrasings that follow are less succinct, and qualitatively different
from those in the first session. It is as if the latecomers had a lot more to say, or
alternatively, that I had more time, and space in my mind, to write).
Frances - Theory and practice don’t match, but how to hold that with confidence. Works
in a chaotic setting - hard to hold confidence in the work, so needing to feel a
confidence and not to have that eroded.
Kelly - Wanting to understand the role of therapist, the differences of work with
children and adults, perceive my role in the session as involvement in attachment but
leads to boundary issues, not good at asking questions, finds self in the right place with
the right book, the unconscious works, but ...
Questions and Learning Edges that come in Session 3
Paula - difficulty in re-joining, issues about abandonment when people don’t come, felt
lost with Semester 3 (Object Relations and Self Psychology) compared to Semesters 1
(Key Concepts and Their Application) and 2, (Development and Psychopathology),
preoccupied with moving house, wishes could do the whole thing again, questions of
taping, relationship, readings, and room for presenter process (although not
supervisory).
Session 2
Present: Bill, Judi, Frances, Tom, Heidi, Mary, Ron Kelly, Nancy and Veronica.
Absent: Paula.
In Session 2, we do some more introductions (of Kelly and Frances, recorded together
with those that came in Session 1, above, although Paula is absent again). I experience
irritation here, as the whole purpose, that of bringing the group together, feels
sabotaged. I do not voice this irritation explicitly, but at the time and with hindsight I