The Use of the Therapist's Self in the Treatment of the Bored Patient

Work with the bored patient is discussed in terms of the centrality of the concrete experiences and expressions of the therapist’s self. The concept to f the self is viewed as the fulcrum for evoking the bored patient to participate more feeling fully in the treatment, in contrast to a more interpretive and theoretical ego oriented approach. Furthermore, in the two cases described, an inadvertent expression of self on the part of the therapist is understood to be a necessary condition for an authentic engagement between patient and therapist to occur