Ask Your Therapist Anything: What Happens When My Patient Turns The Tables

It wasn’t until after graduating from Foundations, an outpatient program for treatment of her addiction to cocaine and alcohol, that Olivia would matriculate into my private practice. Now, a year and some change in, we have decided that it is time for Olivia to move on. as a closing gesture, we created this podcast to both celebrate our work together as well as to provide a bridge towards the next stage in her therapeutic journey.  

So today, instead of allowing her brain to be picked, Olivia gets to turn the tables and ask ME, her therapist, anything. Here, we tackle such questions as: what happens when we outgrow our friends? What is purpose of therapy and how do we know when it is actually working? Why is introversion so often pathologized? I even take such popular, overused terms as “mindfullness” to task.  Lastly, we get into some of my own personal material around dating, friendships, and more. 

Shameless plug for my father's book on Animal Dream Symbolism: 

Animal Guides in Life, Myth and Dreams (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 97)

 

my contact information: benjaminrussack@gmail.com; benjaminrussack.com