Patients come to therapy seeking healing, but their history of relationships is that help often led to harm. Thus, they enter in conflict: they want to engage with you, but out of fear, they hesitate. Perhaps they are vague. Sometimes, they say they don’t have a problem. Other times, they go along, hiding their will to engage. Some patients were talk to hide their will and submit to a tyrannical parent. In all these cases, patients, due to their experience, are unable to bring their will to the task of therapy. In this video example, we will see how these problems manifest and how to help patients with their conflicts so they can join you as a full partner, bringing their will to work together with you in therapy.

Biography: Jon Frederickson is on the faculty of the New Washington School of Psychiatry. He has published eight books. His book, Co-Creating Change, won the British Medical Association Book award in psychiatry in 2013. His most recent book is, Clinical Thinking in Psychotherapy.