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Facts! Facts! Facts! are merely what we know already. They are by definition what can never surprise us.
When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
PARENT WORK CAN BE AS REWARDING AS PSYCHOTHERAPY with children, and child psychotherapists are experienced in working with parents with the child in mind. This work is clearly different from individual adult psychotherapy. There are many themes in “Parent Stories,” which can be considered and even explored in depth. It is a question of being able to offer enough containment to enable parents to make their own links, which in turn may facilitate change.
Work with parents is recognized to be challenging and hard-going. What is daunting about parent work is not only the familiar experience of not knowing for much of the time what is internal reality and what is external reality, but also trying to identify what type of work will best support the needs of the patient and the family. Sometimes the type of work should change as the sessions progress, and this shift