The Lizard In Therapy

In which I discuss how to recognize the #limbicsystem in #psychotherapy and in life. While we are talking to a client about the things that concern them, there is a more basic, perhaps primitive mode of thinking that is ever present influencing that person's thoughts and actions just as much as and perhaps more than what they are presenting. We can either pay attention to it or adhere to what is being presented. This is a reminder to #therapists and their #clients that a question is a question and is not necessarily a hint and that there may be any number of ways to understand the story of our lives. Alternative views are not a threat, but an invitation. The #lizardbrain may become frightened in response to questions that elicit #personalobservations. In a nonthreatening place a properly asked question may provide an opening to #selfexploration and to the #psyche.