Not OK Too!
System Administrator - 2024-05-08 07:51 - (0 Reads)Counsellors and Theripists will have come across the term 'That's ok too!, widely used as a response to a patient in therapy expressing a neurotic flash of anger, grief or ecstasy et al as a disproportionate response to a stimuli usually another human being of behaviour of other human beings.
During my training in Psychosythesis this came up as a phrase and my reaction was no that is not ok too in response to a story about some abusive behaviour. The course director was correct to note that I was not suitable to train as a Therapist since aligning my empathy with nonsense statements was not something I could do with ease. Whether it was my brief stint as an analytic philosophy undergraduate, my thinking orientated personal disposition, my mistreatment by the Nuns from the Nuns of the catholic church, some of whom were in the room or some combination of all of these was never clear however the skilful way the course director explained to me why I was not suitable was salutory.