About this episode

Rachael navigates her anger towards a patient and their family dynamics, ultimately finding clarity in therapy.

In this episode, Rachael gets tangled up in her own anger and hostility towards her patient on behalf of the patient’s daughter. While trying to distance herself from the patient's enmeshment with the daughter she inadvertently gets enmeshed herself in the patient’s dynamic. By more fully accessing her anger with the patient and realising that in her mind she has been treating the daughter rather than the patient, she is able to recenter herself more clearly with the patient in the room. The importance of feeling into the therapy and not only thinking into the therapy is emphasised, with the end point of integrating both. Rachael⁠ must own her murderous rage towards the mother/patient and to reflect on its meaning and beyond that have the capacity to articulate it in a form which can be heard by the patient. By the end of the session, Rachael⁠ is able to achieve this.

People in this episode

Host: Rachael

Topics covered

• anger
• therapy
• enmeshment
• psychoanalysis
• self-reflection

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