“Every therapist will, over the course of his career, encounter a patient whose problem sufficiently mirrors a difficulty for the therapist which is still unresolved. In this situation, unless the therapist is aware of the existence of their own pathology… — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
“Winnicott talks about how ‘mothers do in one way or another identify themselves with the baby growing within them, and in this way they… — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
“Some patients who are profoundly multiply disabled are incontinent, smear faeces, cut themselves, dribble, smell, spit, bite, eat mucous, pull their hair, poke their… — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
“Although there are areas of overlap between working with psychotic and borderline children and with severely deprived children, some of the stresses involved are… — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
“Hearing directly from a person who has been hurt in a profound way gives the listener a secondary trauma. When a Swedish colleague, Anders… — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
“Every therapist will, over the course of his career, encounter a patient whose problem sufficiently mirrors a difficulty for the therapist which is still… — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
“He came to believe that, in addition to getting rid of parts of the self, projective identification was sometimes the only way in which… — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
“If, for example, it is the weak, defenceless, vulnerable part of the self which cannot be tolerated, than this will tend to be split… — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
“They behave towards their therapists as they perceive themselves to have been treated by their absent parents. They make their therapists feel very fully… — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
