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78 LÆKNABLAÐIÐ buted a great deal. The family financial situation had improv- ed, her daughter had graduated from college and married, her psycliotic sister was in a reco- very pliase, and slie had gotten enough courage to break off her relationship witli lier pre- vious therapist. I mention tliis example to indicate tliat even witli alertness in looking for assets we often do not see tliem, and tliat the tenacity for life and growth are often far greater than we may give our patients credit for.8) Also ahout eleven years ago I saw another woman in consid- tation. I mention her because of my main thesis regarding the urge toward health and to again exemplify human tenacity in searching for help to find solu- tions for human prohlems. I also mention her because even in the first, or first few sessions we can test out the validity of our conjectures regarding the presence of such assets by a test interpretation, and by noting the response. She was 34 when she consulted me.This was after having woi’ked with nine dif- ferent therapists over a period of fifteen years. Her complaint against all of them was that they had not allowed her lo express herself. By this she meant tliey had not made it pos- sible for her to come out witli the full intensity of her feelings of hostility. She also felt she had not been helped. I saw this was not the case because I was the first therapist she had ever consulted on her own. iAll the otliers Iiad been cliosen for her. For her to have made her own choice and acted on it indicated that some of her inertia, inde- cisiveness and hlocks to assert lier own wants had been work- ed through. That she could make clioices and act on them was one asset, and the second was tliat in spite of long trials at therapy she clung tenaciously to the liope of getting lielp and was willing to try again at quite a financial sacrifice. After she had assured me several times tliat I had not in any way block- ed her from expressing her feelings, I made this interpre- tation. „Could it be that you might liave a fear of lettingyour feelings go and expressing them?“ She flushed, became tense and anxious. I saw force- ful pulsations in her neck whicli hecame very red and after a few minutes she said, „Yes,“ that she was afraid of the vio- lence of lier feelings. For lier to accept sucli an idea indicated to me tliat she had quite some assets, namely to switch from the attitude „what they didn’t do,“ „it was llieir fault“ to „this is my problem.“ She aecepted my recommen- dation to work with one of my

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