Psychotherapy is....
"I still thought like, "Wow, this is what it is!" And, it is just - I saw it, it as a very fine glass, porcelain glass, or porcelain bowl that someone is like handing to you. But it‟s so fragile – it‟s almost like an eggshell (…) eggshell bowl! (...).
It‟s such a fragile thing. And, it‟s like a little bit cracked and you must just
like hold it so perfectly or it might break. And that is what I see therapy as.
It‟s this thing that this person, like, hands over and you hold it with them.
Um, but you must just hold it right because otherwise it could crack. And,
um, eventually you give it back to them. And, it doesn't necessarily become whole, but you've held it with them for awhile. And, they have showed it to someone and it is real. You've acknowledged it as real (…). I like that whole fragileness of this thing that they take out and like show you, and, “Hold it with me”. And, you take it, maybe for a while. But you give it back to them. And, it is not always fixed and it doesn't have to be." Intern Psychologist Participant B
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Extract from THERAPIST METAMORPHOSIS: BEGINNER AND EXPERIENCED PSYCHOTHERAPISTS’ JOURNEYS OF PROFESSIONAL THERAPEUTIC DEVELOPMENT
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