Yes, Yes, Yes, But

• Harold's Therapy: The Long Haul by Don Nathanson, Faculty, 1/4/97
  • Affect in Case Presentations by FACULTY: Vick Kelly, 1/15/97
    
    

I agree completely:

That Don's card-intervention was inspired.

That Don is exquisitely sensitive to the affective atmosphere

That single channel communication blots out the music here for all of us

But:

Doesn't this last observation apply to Henry's work as well? I assume it is possible to pursue "Socratic questioning" as a collaborative project with the patient in an atmosphere that doesn't elicit shame. I didn't hear Henry advocate being a "blank screen."

I also wonder if you have an opinion about whether a personality change had occurred in Harold as a consequence of the therapy. I thought that was one of the things Henry was asking. From an affect-script point of view it may be that "personality" is not a useful construct. Is that so?

• Yes again, But again by FACULTY: Vick Kelly, 1/16/97