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About Opening Hearts, Opening Minds: Therapeutic Group
Review Becoming a psychotherapist requires us to lean into emotional discomfort, confront psychic pain, and genuinely examine our relations to self, others, and world. Being open to professional development also requires a personal commitment to taking risks in training and supervision. In their consultation and supervision model conducted in a therapeutic group format, Raubolt and Brink provide just that kind of holistic environment lacking in formal training programs. This is a highly recommended venture for therapists looking for psychological depth as a person in the role of helper and healer where authenticity, vulnerability, and existential awakenings are explored.- Prof. Jon Mills, PsyD., PhD, ABPP, University of Essex & Adelphi University; author of Debating Relational Psychoanalysis: Jon Mills and his Critics.Raubolt and Brink show us that psychotherapy is beset by emotional discomfort, psychic pain, and fear of failure. Which is why anyone who engages in this kind of experience will find themselves, at least to begin with, imitating other people and repeating themselves (which is imitating oneself). And imitation is fear of failure. But no one can know what they can do until they have tried. Knowing is experimental, and knowledge is of the new. So we must shed the limitations of tradition, break away from institutionalized allegiances, refuse to be compromised by the past. What we must strive to do is, as Emerson suggests, illuminate the untried and unknown. Our interest should be in the birthing stage of the self. We should want nothing more than to be always beginning.Too often, a sense of impossibility is the unwillingness to see the possibilities. There is no knowing beforehand in our field. The only use of what we think we already know is to make surprises possible. What we need to offer our patients, as well as our supervisees, are answering responses, not answers. This is the only alternative to doctrine or dogma. And this is what Raubolt and Brink are encouraging the beginners they are writing for to do. In other words, what they are encouraging them to do is to find different ways of living with themselves and different descriptions of these so-called selves. As people like Marion Milner, Winnicott, or Adam Phillips tell us, the most interesting thing about psychoanalysis is its unpredictability. It's a real risk, and that also is the point of it. We need to accept this, to not fear this, otherwise all we will ever do is repeat the past.- Michael Larivière is a psychoanalyst working in private practice in Strasbourg, France. He is the author of five books, the latest on Masud Khan. He has taught seminars in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, Turin, Milan, Padua, Zürich, Paris, and Strasbourg.Opening Hearts Opening Minds Therapeutic Group Consultation (TGC) finds two highly respected clinicians' combined clinical wisdom and vast therapeutic acumen in a brief but highly accessible manual. In contrast with most contemporary group therapy formats and supervisory group processes, TGC possesses a unique design cultivating the psychic tastebuds of the becoming clinician, the clinician in becoming, creatively challenging the developing of a powerful and evocative "language of feeling."The TGC format furthermore reflects the intentional blending of cognition and emotion, theory and action, therapy and education focussing on the therapist as a unique subjectivity by recognizing and encouraging the expression of authenticity, honesty, receptivity, vulnerability, and self-reflection within a securely framed microcosm regardless of participants' theoretical position! The therapeutic alliance, empathy, emotional sensitivity, and corrective emotional experience scaffold the TGC's underlying attachment theory approach, liming the participants' ability to learn from experience. Various felt anecdotal material is also included, clearly illustrating a powerful emotive process serving as a welcome counter-point to psychother
