Directions of Travel
I expect you know this, and I expect that I should have known this, but we live and learn. I am working with someone who has done some fairly nasty stuff and during the process of assessment and formulation we identified that there were some fundamental issues that likely were involved in this behaviour. One of these was his own traumatic experiences. As part of our plan, we had a hierarchy of addressing these issues, in part informed by him and in part informed by my attempts to try to keep the stuff that I thought would be harder for him until closer to the end. Sometimes hierarchies have to be adapted so they are no longer the hierarchy that you initially identified. The work was tough for both of us. He’s someone who struggles to concentrate, struggles to see the point of the work (because he says he’s fine), but is a mostly amenable fellow. His attendance could best be described as sporadic. One fine day as I arrived to meet with him, he was telling me that he was in good sh...