Confrontations with the inconceivable: a therapists experience of life-threatening illness.
It is generally agreed that each therapeutic relationship is uniquely affected by both the client's and therapist's values, dynamics, and life experiences. How we, as therapists struggle with our life crises cannot help but shape our participation in the therapeutic relationship. While all therapists reveal much about themselves by chance as well as unconscious choice, this paper illustrates how the deliberate self-disclosure of a life threatening illness expanded the relationship for therapist and client alike.
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Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia, New York, USA.