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"What Brand is Your Therapist?"
Dr. Richard Grossman:
Actually, I am the least likely therapist of all that I know to be successfully “branded”. For amusement’s sake, I just calculated the mean and median number of years my current patients have been coming to see me. (Understand that not all see me every week.) The median number of years is 11, and the mean is 14. I may begin seeing one or two new patients per year if that. I’m afraid it typically takes persistence and a moving story (or some other connection) to get in my door—and I throw up every barrier I can :lol:. Other therapists laugh at me—I mean, I’m not a psychoanalyst, and I don’t believe in or do psychoanalytic psychotherapy (therapies that typically take a long time), although that was my training decades ago. The “problem” is that my relationship with every one of the people I see is very special—to them and to me (even though we each have our “roles”). So, it’s very hard for my patients and for me if/when they leave. I suppose then, one might brand me an “Addiction Specialist” :wink: !
Richard
teartracks:
8) Ricardo
sKePTiKal:
Ah the irony...
isn't a weird thing, that to be taken seriously as a valid, professional, therapist.... that you'd need to artificially invent an image to sell? That's a reflection of the society we live in, I think.
My T's card just had her name on it, contact info, the letters after her name. But, her directions to her office was "look for the front porch covered in blooming wisteria". The wisteria is so famous, I've seen it in the local paper down here in NC. In full bloom, you dodge the bees to get to the door... and each time I did I had a more or less intense perception that I was entering a very special, spiritual place... if only one had the frequency tuned in. Like the train station in Harry Potter. Other than that, it was just another house on that street. I even intentionally tried to experience it like that a few times. Didn't work, tho! LOL.... by that time, we were in deep and there was an agenda to work on! LOL... exercise, practice, new perspectives and skills... kind of like an emotional personal trainer with the ability to see exactly what I was thinking and feeling... but that I didn't know I knew.
I have such a sensory connection to spaces and appreciation for architecture, and the interplay of light, volume, warmth and coziness, and honest strength of wood, metals, etc that her office itself was therapeutic to me. Add in the odd cat or dog that she was fostering, too... and I think it was just such a natural match that it reaffirms a persons belief in fate, god, something moving us intentionally beyond our awareness.
If she'd had a professional office, in a professional office building I think I would've been wary, on edge, and not nearly so relaxed or trusting. By filling the space with things that mattered to her... I could get a sense of who she was... form some emotional "common ground"... from the pictures, knick-knacks, the authors of various books on her shelves. Of course, that's exactly what I'd done with my professional concrete block basement (no windows) office. I even kept the flourescent lighting off most of the time and used several lamps instead. It was a good space for dealing with 1s and 0s... and overcoming resistance to technology.
BonesMS:
--- Quote from: Dr. Richard Grossman on November 29, 2012, 09:37:49 AM ---Great idea, Bones and Amber! “Explorer of Uncharted Territory” I really like that! (Now all I have to do is find two therapists by the names of Lewis and Clark to go into practice with, and we’ll be set for life…)
Lewis and Clark......................................................................................and Grossman
Explorers of Uncharted Territory
Thinking of you, Amber…
Richard
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Or Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. Leonard McCoy......."Space, the Final Frontier......to Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before!" :D
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Amber)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Bones
SilverLining:
--- Quote from: teartracks on November 29, 2012, 02:43:00 PM ---
Hey PR,
In the 20th century thinking of Lewis & Clark's expedition as a model might have been appropriate. But we're postmodern now. advancing with the times demands instant, quick and easy results. Marketing is another issue which has to be considered. It needs to be quick and clever as well. ?
tt
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It has to be quick, easy, and thinking of the future it should appeal to the twilight generation. Lewis and Clark were from the old school of real world physical trials. That's for old fogies who grew up with dial phones and only saw movies a few times a year.
The kids now like fantasy and magical thinking. So how about something along the lines of "psychological demon slayer". :)
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