Re: Pshychoanalysis anyone?

[Anonymous]

i really said that tongue-in-cheek, I think it’s true, but I also think I can stop seeing my therapist any time I want to. Since we’re doing meditation training with some therapy to help with personal material that gets in the way of the training, he periodically asks his students/patients whether they want to continue on with him or not. And he does ask us to commit to the work (practices he gives us) or he respectfully says he won’t work with us, nothing personal, just that he wants the commitment to the practices. So at least once a year, or even every 6 months, he asks us to ask ourselves are we really committed to working with him. There’s an exit door whenever I want it. But I find it so useful that I am not ready to give it up.

There are MBCT programs, which is Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, which combines mindfulnessness training and therapy, and these are quite successful, as far as I hear. I took the MBSR program, or Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program (Jon Kabat-Zin program), and it was a great beginning for me. So if that’s something offered in your part of the world I would check it out, the combination of mindfulness or meditation training and therapy is quite effective.

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