扪心问诊 第一季

Laura的故事前面几集一直看得很烦躁，无效的治疗，甚至已经不是治疗。情感生活不幸福、进入中年危机的Paul在这种诱惑之下渐渐乱了阵脚。虽然心理治疗从业人士都能一眼看出，Laura在治疗室里呈现的诱惑，正是她需要面对的问题。可是对于陷了进去的Paul，治疗已经难以为继。

一直到——Laura决定采取主动，结束治疗关系。结束之前，Laura讲出了内心的秘密：15岁那年，母亲去世，父亲陷入抑郁。一个吸引她的父辈男人David出现，她希望他收养她，把她从抑郁的父亲身边带走，被拒绝了。然后，这个男人出现在她家中，她勾引了他，在父亲的眼皮底下每天和他做爱。她为此感觉得意，觉得自己能够借此成功进入成人世界，借此留在心仪的男人。

Paul恍然大悟，Laura一直以来对他的诱惑正是她拿手的方式，这种方式让她感觉自己有吸引力，成功，掌控。她习惯性地用诱惑的方式和一切她希望亲近的男人交往，掌控他们，但她却为此憎恨自己，因为她看不到，自己是值得被爱值得被关心的。

隔周，不再是病人的Laura回来见Paul，Paul承认自己被吸引，爱上了Laura。Laura想吻他，Paul拒绝了。Laura感到挫败和愤怒。Paul说：“你以为我不和你上床，就不会对你感兴趣。我不会像David一样背叛你，做出伤害你的事。”那一刻我很动容，不再是Laura的治疗师的Paul却终于站在了治疗师的位置上，把自己的愿望放在旁边，按照最有助于Laura的方式来行动。

然后Paul在治疗师那里讨论了很多被Laura激起的情感（我没看这部分，我是按照一个故事一个故事的顺序看的）。最后一集Gina终于不耐烦了，对Paul说：“你一直在说Laura对你怎样怎样重要，好像我在阻碍你似的。你能不能自己承担起责任？你要是想去找Laura，就去找啊。”

然后，是那个很荒谬的结局：Paul在Laura的卧室里，想要和她上床的时候，却惊恐发作。Paul说：“我很害怕会被吞下去。”我想，在那个地方，Paul大概也有些自己的情结需要去面对。不过，我还是很欣赏Gina的解释。她说：“你做了正确的事，对你自己，对你的病人。正确的决定从来都不是优雅地作出的，因为需要我们和自己的愿望做斗争。惊恐发作不是外来的东西，它就是你，你该为自己的行为负责，也该赞赏自己的正确决定。”

而最有意思的是，一直到当Paul决定接受Laura尝试和她在一起，她才真正意识到，自己并不是真的想和Paul在一起，而是自己习惯于用这种诱惑的方式来和男人交往。这就是Gina说的“令人讽刺的成功”。

看到这里，我开始觉得治疗师真是个可悲的职业。非得把自己卷入才能真的帮到病人。可是常在河边走，岂能不湿鞋。卷入的结果就是不断地需要和自己的欲望做斗争，不断地用理性抽离的方式来理解自己的欲望并超越自己的欲望。为了职业伦理而牺牲自己的欲望，作为一个人，这是多么可悲啊。

这个编剧确实对心理治疗理解很深，这个剧写出了身为治疗师的酸甜苦辣。如果说Alex的剧是不幸结局是苦，Laura的剧则是先辣后酸，口味很重，呵呵。虽然为了戏剧化的需要有太多破坏设置的地方，但在根本上心理治疗是怎么起作用的这一点写得非常好，可谓是艺术的真实吧。

我看过一次心理医生，在北京。是北师大的研究生，她对我进行观察，举动一目了然，但仍然是有用的，不是因为她告诉我“你很正常”，而是因为她的学识为我所理解的事件进行了新的注释，有一种理论的力量。

会经常有这样的时候吧，想把最近发生的事情统统告诉一个无关紧要的人。我其实想告诉认识的人，但距离都好远。又没法一遍遍在心里回放，话说出来的功效有如抽丝剥茧，如何描述、怎样表达都直白地流露出心思所在。

看完荣格的书以后，我开始记录所有睡醒时还清楚的梦，这个工程有时很浩大，像是在写分镜头剧本，有时又面临长时间的断档。总体上仍然是相当有用的，因为在现实生活里不能实现的情境多半会在睡梦中得到相应的补偿。很少人会停下来认真思考所渴求的东西，或是自己最核心的不满足到底在哪儿，所以记录梦境的方法就从反方向提供了捷径。

最近偶然发现这部美剧，看惯跌宕起伏情节的人一定会觉得无聊致死。每集就是心理医生Paul和他病人的对话，每周5集，4个固定的病人加上第5天Paul去自己的导师那里谈话。一口气看掉了10多集，像是接受了2个疗程的治疗。

我暂时找不到心理医生，但是Paul的提问常迫使我对自己进行反问。始终觉得，要找到一种方式和自己坦诚相待，是多么的重要。

第一集我是完全没有从Laura有点混乱的叙述中听出她喜欢医生。以后再重看，看看能不能分析出来。
第二集他一开始提到Dan是gay我就有点怀疑他也是gay了。医生提到他妈死亡的时候我感觉这个人肯定是对死亡的痛苦和恐惧太深，又不会疏导，所以把这种感情深深压抑下去，不敢面对。他的典型的完美主义者啊，用完美主义的表象掩盖自己的弱点。他不敢承认自己是不完美的这一事实。他害怕做决定，害怕承担责任，我也一样啊。我是如此害怕做决定，如此害怕承担后果。我其实像一个5岁的小女孩啊。
哎呀，第三集的小姑娘和我很像啊，谈论悲伤的事情时会笑，很有自杀倾向，不爱谈论自己，独生女。When she was angry, she wanted her mother to call just so she could get angry with her.
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A Remedy for Family Failure

Now, one very common lack in contemporary families is the failure to treat children with unconditional nurturing guidance and protection. So instead of learning true love in their families, children—through all sorts of family manipulation and game-playing, if not outright abuse—are essentially taught to fear love. And the pain of all this loneliness, guilt, and fear will live on in the unconscious, in a sort of timeless emotional imprisonment, even as the child grows through childhood and adolescence to adulthood.

So, suffering from psychological pain, you will seek out psychotherapy. Through healthy and honest interactions with a psychotherapist, you can learn to think and act in new, emotionally honest ways, different from the psychological defenses created in childhood, and current problems and symptoms can be remedied.

In this profound interaction with the psychotherapist, however, a new problem can emerge.

 
Feeling Special

As you begin to encounter genuine concern for your well-being, the whole experience of psychotherapy can feel overwhelming and intoxicating. Once having felt ignored and misunderstood, and now feeling noticed and understood—and not rejected—you can start to feel special. Moreover, you can begin to believe that the psychotherapist is special as well.

When this happens, everything can take on a feeling of erotic “love.”

You see quote marks around the word love in the last sentence because erotic feelings are really feelings of desire, not love. I want to know more about the psychotherapist’s personal life. I want to know what he or she likes. I want to be with him or her outside the psychotherapy sessions. I want to believe that he or she feels an attraction to me. And so on. That’s desire. It’s desire because it is based in what “I want,” not in what you or someone else needs.

  
        

Think for a moment about the whole purpose of family life and wonder what any infant needs. Well, an infant, born into the world completely helpless, needs protection and guidance in order to grow and develop its own abilities, so that, in maturity, he or she can go out into the world to do good for others. That protection and guidance—which is an aspect of true love—isn’t meant to make you feel “happy”; it’s meant to help you develop your unique talents and grow into a productive member of the whole human family.
        

  

Now, true love does have a function in psychotherapy. Love can be defined as “willing the good of another,” and this is precisely what the psychotherapist is ethically bound to do for all clients. The psychotherapist wills the good of all clients by ensuring that all actions within the psychotherapy serve the client’s need to overcome the symptoms that prevent the client from living a useful and meaningful life.

 
Flirting with Emotional Disaster

As unpleasant as it may be to admit it, erotic “love” is based on infantile needs to be received, accepted, and satisfied. When someone feels intensely received, accepted, and satisfied, then he or she is “in love.” But sooner or later that intensity will be broken. The break doesn’t even have to be the result of malicious neglect; it can simply be the result of a need to attend to other obligations in the world, and, in the person feeling neglected, intense jealousy can flare up.

This explains why “lovers,” friends, and blog readers, with all their personal needs and desires, cannot function psychotherapeutically. And it explains philosophically—above and beyond any laws or professional ethics—why psychotherapists cannot be friends or “lovers” to their clients. If they try, it will lead to psychological disaster, for without the “third person” of the unconscious in the consulting room the psychotherapy will degenerate into emotional chaos.

 
Understanding the Erotic Transference

Erotic “love” within the psychotherapy—technically called an erotic transference—is not necessarily a bad thing, though. That is, it’s not a bad thing if it can be understood as one essential step toward learning true love.

Just as any child who receives gifts from others must first go through a phase of development characterized by a “hoarding” or “clinging” mentality—Mine! Mine!—before learning to share with others, so you, in feeling the enthralling acceptance of your psychotherapist, will at first want to hoard that feeling and claim it as your own personal possession. But that feeling can’t stop there, and your psychotherapist’s job is to make sure it doesn’t stop there.

  
        

Sadly, many psychotherapists are not very competent in dealing with subtle psychodynamic issues. In fact, many psychotherapists feel uncomfortable with a client’s erotic transference. Why? Because many psychotherapists are unconsciously caught up in their own erotic transference with the world around them. And so these incompetent psychotherapists can make a mess of the whole process. Instead of just admitting, “Sure, you’re an interesting and attractive person. But that’s not what this work is all about. So let’s get on with the real work,” they try to hide behind a forced façade of neutrality that only leaves the client exasperated and confused. And if the client tries to speak about his or her feelings, an incompetent psychotherapist will shy away from really exploring the depth and vast unconscious extent of those feelings. Or an incompetent psychotherapist will, for his or her personal satisfaction, “fan the flames” of the client’s desire. Yet none of this is psychotherapy—it’s just more of the same manipulation and game-playing that has brought the client into treatment in the first place.
        

  

So remember why someone goes into psychotherapy: to experience a sense of genuine recognition so as to overcome the lack that disturbs current social functioning. Once all the manipulation, game-playing, and dishonesty that characterize your interpersonal relationships are dissolved through the integrity and honesty of the therapeutic relationship, then you can enter into an honest life of true love for others.

Is a psychotherapist just a “paid friend”
or an “emotional prostitute”?

 
The Real Task of Psychotherapy

Your task in psychotherapy, then, after you experience that intoxicating feeling of unconditional recognition, is to recognize in the transference itself your desire to hoard that feeling. At this point it will be important to talk openly within the psychotherapy about those desires and explore their deepest unconscious significance. Talk about how good it feels to experience recognition and understanding. And talk about how painful it felt to have been unrecognized and criticized as a child.

Assuming you have a competent psychotherapist, resist the temptation to terminate the treatment so as to run from the embarrassment of honest communication. Work through the awkwardness of it all until your desires for the psychotherapist are seen for what they are: an intoxicating attempt to hoard feelings of recognition and understanding.

Then, having understood the profound difference between desire and love, and having worked through the unconscious illusions (i.e., psychological defenses) behind your intense desire for one person, you can proceed to offer genuine love to everyone.

 
Summary

When you are working to overcome the transference, keep in mind this important fact:

  
        

You are not “in love” with your psychotherapist; you are obsessed with the idea that another person can give you what has been missing in your life because of what your parents—especially your father—took away from you in your childhood.