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Two-chair technique with woman challenging critical inner voice
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism, Personal.
- Emotion-focused therapy.
- Perfectionism (Personality trait).
- Self-acceptance.
- Self-destructive behavior.
- Self-realization.
- Emotion-Focused Therapy.
- Self Concept.
- Perfectionism.
- Medical Subjects:
- Emotion-Focused Therapy.
- Self Concept.
- Perfectionism.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films
- Educational films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (57 min., 41 sec.))
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] American Psychological Association [2020]
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- In this session, Dr. Rhonda N. Goldman demonstrates emotion-focused therapy delivered online with a client who reports an incident of binging and purging after a fight with her boyfriend. The client talks about how the fight was triggered by stress over work. The therapist explores the source of this stress, and the client discloses that she feels this way because she feels she is never "perfect" in her job, nor in her relationship, but that she is always trying to be. The therapist reflects that there is something that gets activated in the client when she is not living up to her own expectations to be perfect. Goldman uses the two-chair technique to help the client work with her inner critical voice, during which the client expresses the feeling that she is a "pathetic disappointment." The client takes turns speaking from the point-of-view of this critical voice and from that of her more vulnerable self who is harmed by the critical voice. They explore how the critical voice protects her in certain situations when things may be wrong, such as after her previous relationship ended and she was left feeling devastated and worthless. The therapist encourages the client to talk back to the critical voice and to develop a stronger counter-voice that will hold the critical voice in check
- Notes:
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- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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