Clients‟ experience of counselling within a narrative framework
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Beauty and the Beast ( PDFDrive )
6.5.1 Uncontained-unfree
This category can be difficult to define because although the client may be stuck, as I was stuck in shock, there may still be a feeling of desiring movement or looking around to see where they are. Other categories may also be present so the interrelationships then need to be investigated. An example of this process may be seen in week fourteen when Who am I writes: Extract 30. From a journal to show uncontained-unfree. Line 1. Sadness - feeling heavy. Line 2. Uncertainty of future, feels Line 3. like I have „outgrown my Line 4. constructs‟. much self-doubt. Line 5. “affair potential if I had the Line 6. confidence + self-esteem”. Line 7. Huge, overbearing lethargic Line 8. sadness. Need to do it differently Line 9. How? Line 10. Greater nurturing of self + family Line 11. + reduce the energy invested in „partnership‟. At first sight there appears to be movement in that she feels her sadness and wants to live differently so there may be a desire to contain her own affect but the analysis helps to show that she is perhaps stuck, yet looking around: Extract 31. From the analysis to show how this influenced the choice of category. This entry starts with a description of the client‟s sadness (line 1) which feels heavy and later she returns to add to this description (lines 7,8) as if writing the entry has made her more aware of how enormous the sadness is. Her future feels uncertain (line 2) and she feels that she has outgrown the constructs (lines 3,4) she has lived with until now. It appears the process of therapy is enabling her to question who she is or wants to be and perhaps this is what her self doubt (line 4) is about. The whole of lines 5 and 6 are in speech marks as if she is talking to herself very 165 particularly. Perhaps there is a part of her that would like to have enough self esteem and confidence to have an affair (lines 5,6) or maybe she needs an affair with herself which is what the counselling appears to offer – perhaps an affair between Beauty and the Beast. Yet it is after this that she describes her sadness again so perhaps she is unsure about this. It seems she wants to do life differently, or be herself differently (line 8) yet she says this is a need which suggests a desire to change. In questioning how (line 9) to do this she appears to be telling herself what to do next. She then seems to answer the question by saying that she wants to nurture herself and her family more and reduce the energy invested in the partnership (line 11) with her husband as if their relationship has been her main focus. Perhaps she has wanted more than he has been able to give in that she may have wanted him to save her from her past (be her Beast) rather than having to be her own Beast. An „affair‟ with herself may enable her to save herself. Perhaps she needs to reduce the amount of energy that she spends on being the victim (Beauty) in her internal Download 1.47 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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