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Now I have lost my father…

By Kathy Broady MSW 32 Comments

“So thanks to all of this therapy, I have lost my father.” “You haven’t lost your father….You did lose the father that you thought you had…” “OK, I get it.  I didn’t have the perfect dad…. And my therapy has successfully shattered my romanticized image of my narcissistic father.  Is that how you would say it?” “I would say, the patient, born to a depressed mother, idealized her father so as to not feel completely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, HBO's Series "In Treatment", mental health, sexual abuse, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Trauma Tagged With: Abusive Family Dynamics, Abusive Fathers, Abusive Relationships, Amnesia, Amnesiac Wall, Denial, Depression, DID/MPD, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Walls, Dr. Paul Weston, HBO Series In Treatment, Honesty, Host Parts, In Treatment, Inside System, Insiders, Internal Communication, Kathy Broady, Lying, Multiplicity, Safety, Sex Offenders, sexual abuse, Sexually Abused, split personality, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Trauma Therapy, Treatment Goal for DID

Expressing Anger Instead of Pain

By Kathy Broady MSW 37 Comments

  Every now and then, Dr. Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) from HBO's series, "In Treatment" comes out with a good line, full of depth, and accurate to the therapy process. In one of the episodes I saw this week, Dr. Weston says, "Is it easier to be angry with me than to look at your own pain?"  His client was throwing all kinds of angry jabs at him when clearly she was angry, upset, and miserable about her own … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, HBO's Series "In Treatment", mental health, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, trauma therapist Tagged With: Anger, Complex Dissociation, Conflict, Deflecting Pain, DID/MPD, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dr. Paul Weston, Family Dynamics, Fear, Gabriel Byrne, Guilt, HBO Series In Treatment, Host Alters, Host Part, Humiliation, In Treatment, Kathy Broady, Listening, Looking at your pain, Memories, Ongoing Abuse, Ongoing Trauma, Ongoing Violence, pain, Perpetrators, Projection, Sadistic Abuse, Shame, Switching, Talking to Insiders, Therapist, therapy, Transference, Trauma memories, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Traumatic Memories

HBO’s “In Treatment” – Is That What Therapy is Like?

By Kathy Broady MSW 17 Comments

How many of you have been watching the award-winning HBO Series, "In Treatment" with Gabriel Byrne, Dianne Wiest, and John Mahoney?  This HBO series is currently near the beginning of its second season, centered around how Dr. Paul Weston (Byrne) conducts therapy sessions with four different clients, and then his own individual therapy process with his own therapist, Dr. Gina Toll (Wiest). In my opinion, the "In … [Read more...]

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