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I too value your insight on theory, culture and Control Mastery Theory. I think we will all benefit from your thoughts. If a group is unwilling to look at what it doesn't address, or needs to improve on there is little chance that the theory will survive and continue to be helpful. I have seen many changes in Control Mastery theory in the twenty years I have worked with the group and I am sure there will be more to come. All are invited to help pave the way for its growth.

I remember as a beginning student wishing for answers, any answers that would help me to feel less lost at sea when with patients. I think it is very hard, as we first try to help patients, to be open to the confusion and pain we are exposed to. A good theory can help you to organize the material you are exposed to. I agree that an extremely important component of that is to learn to trust your feelings and intuition. I do think that one's intuition and empathy has a great deal to do with the success of your treatment but I think that one think that what CM (and any good theory) tries to do is help one to understand what would be truly empathic for a patient. It is sometimes counterintuitive. the Plan concept helps guide (not replace) my intuitive stances.

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