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Originally Posted by purplepower  My thoughts are that sometimes we spend too much time going over past negative events and thereby "lock them in " in some way. It's almost (in my humble opinion!) a self indulgence in a sense. It may not be "fashionable" but I (semi) exploded with one psychotherapist with whom I have had dealings in relation to a family member and told them that I thought beyond a certain point we all have to live our life rather than spend forever dissecting and analysing it.
Sorry, but I guess I'm a Martha rather than a Mary (even in Sunday School, Mary gave me the pip !) |
Good for you!
The father of modern hypnotherapy
Milton Erickson was adamant about having directing his clients to the future instead of the past.
(This was a half-paralyzed color-blind man who could change clients whom other therapists had given up on! Read the amazing
Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D..)
"Insight into the past may be somewhat educational. But insight into the past isn't going to change the past."