I am been pondering what it is about therapy that maintains my interest. Am I changing the world? Perhaps in a small way, but I do not want to be a politician or activist. Create more justice in the world? Maybe so, but I do not wish the be an advocate for the poor as a lawyer or social worker. For me therapy is an encounter with the human condition, more aligned with art or theatre than charity work. It is the prospect of rich contact with another person, and in so doing, rich contact with myself as a human being that keeps me interested. Only as a therapist is every part of who I am potentially relavant and useful and as such the most alive and vital way of being I know.
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Peter Harris, psychotherapist, counsellor and human who is just making things up as he goes along...
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