Are psychiatric consultations useful? Judging from the show In Treatment, the vast majority of people are as skeptical as I am, and some even outright deny it. Even patients who come to see a doctor have a hard time building trust in Doctor Paul - in other words, many people know they need psychotherapy, but don't believe it's useful, and even if they do, it will take a long time to build trust. time. In Woody Allen's movies, there is always a crazy guy who has been paying a psychiatrist for more than ten years without getting better, to make fun of the uselessness and hilarity of psychotherapy. I have always believed that a good psychiatrist should have innate intuition in addition to the theoretical system, psychoanalysis, logic, and rationality that can be learned in the class, and behind these two there must be an understanding of the patient. Love as support and hold the overall situation. Otherwise, if you understand so many dark or tragic things in human nature, you must be easily perverted. The theoretical system and Freudian psychoanalysis in this drama are not very prominent. As a very talented psychiatrist, Paul's "unconscious intuition" and caring for patients are vividly and delicately displayed. . That's why this show feels good and not boring. Director and screenwriter is the famous Garcia. Son of Marquez!
From the psychiatrist's question back to the psychological consultation itself. Almost all patients are anxious to solve their problems immediately and then everything will be fine. So almost all patients will say to Paul: You can tell me whether I should do this or not! or just tell me what I should do! or What would you do if you were me? ! Every time Paul answered very calmly: "I can't stand on your position to decide whether I can do something or not" "The decision of this matter is up to you." The patient is always mad at this time - if that's the case, what's the use of me paying to come to you? ! Alex's father even attributed Alex's death to a psychological consultation and sued Paul. But it is undeniable that Paul cured Laure, who had self-destructive tendencies and "Erotic Transference" problems, and Sophie, who was smart, acerbic, and confused. Only Paul could have made the best effort or even self-sacrifice under the patient's evasion and even malicious confrontation in this process of deciphering. As an audience, it was a pleasure to watch.
An interesting detail of In Treatment, the title is a puddle of flowing, staggered water. Paul's psychological clinic also has such a water flow ornament, which is constantly flowing, separating, and converging in a balance between left and right. Water is often a symbol of people's psychological emotions (emotions, feelings). Some people's emotions are like cheerful streams, some deep seas, some broad rivers, some unfathomable ancient wells, and some even stagnant waters. A pool. Chinese classical culture especially likes to use the contradictory meaning of water barrier and communication to express the barrier and communication of people. For example, the familiar saying "I live at the head of the Yangtze River, and you live at the end of the Yangtze River. I miss you every day and don't see you. Drink the water of the Yangtze River together. When will this water stop, and when will this hatred end?" "How much sorrow can you have? The Jiangchun water flows eastward" "The water flows more when the knife is cut and the water is cut off, and the sadness is even more sorrowful when raising a cup and selling out" "The water is full of water, and the pulse cannot be spoken". Psychological things are sometimes very mysterious. It stands to reason that everyone is more or less psychologically unhealthy. The more serious psychological problems often lie in the balance of their own mentality. For example, A is an existing fact, B is a person's concept, thinking, and idea, and C is a person's negative emotion. When C appears, people will painfully and stubbornly investigate the cause of A, and people related to A. And things, I do not know that A is an established fact that cannot be changed at all, people can only accept it; only B can be changed. If you don't want to change B or can't change B, people often fall into a serious psychological imbalance, which leads to the continuous increase of C - the water only flows to one side, and it can't flow back.
After the second season, my only conclusion now is that no matter what kind of personality, what kind of emotion, what kind of value category people, try to avoid moral judgment or use their own may be very trite and omission to measure others, These are completely meaningless, the important thing is to break some communication barriers (it seems impossible to completely break), so that the emotional water flows and the emotions are balanced.
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