What Terry Real thinks about Psychotherapy
Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It and Us; argues that the Western idea of the separate individual is what makes couples' work hard.
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2 dated positions, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Terry Real has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIn my practice, I have seen that opening neural pathways can lead to profound change, to brand-new traits and behavior, sometimes in a matter of minutes.
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Their wordsNeurobiologists tell us that it takes two things to unlock and open up a neural pathway. The first is that the implicit must be made explicit. Sometimes you need help seeing what you don't see. But you must be open to the feedback. Second, there must be some sort of recoil, a sense of discrepancy, of "Oh no, I'm not sure I really want to keep doing that."