[NON BLOG] Psychotherapy
Nov. 17th, 2004 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI don't think that I've mentioned that for the past five weeks, I've been attending psychotherapy session at the 519 Community Centre. There's weren't outstanding issues, or at least no urgent outstanding issues. I simply wanted external feedback, inasmuch as I don't exactly have a good track record re: unaided self-consideration. Sentience in human beings, I've been convinced by the past three years and then some, is something best measured in degrees.
This evening was the final session. I found the whole experience to be revelatory, really, in revealing the underpinnings of my thought and behavioural patterns. I hadn't realized, for instance, that I unconsciously translated "physically relax" as "pose as someone physically relaxed." This might not be a surprise to anyone who's given me a massage or reiki therapy, and who has seen my hands at rest tightly clenched in fists. It's a symptomatic revelation nonetheless.
What can I say? Psychotherapy works.
This evening was the final session. I found the whole experience to be revelatory, really, in revealing the underpinnings of my thought and behavioural patterns. I hadn't realized, for instance, that I unconsciously translated "physically relax" as "pose as someone physically relaxed." This might not be a surprise to anyone who's given me a massage or reiki therapy, and who has seen my hands at rest tightly clenched in fists. It's a symptomatic revelation nonetheless.
What can I say? Psychotherapy works.
