Mark L. Ruffalo
@MarkLRuffalo
Psychotherapist and historian of psychiatry; faculty in psychiatry @UCF and @TuftsMedSchool; interest in #BPD and #psychosis; thoroughbred owner 🐎
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"[The therapist] avoids being too supportive, because he hopes not only to offer sustaining help but also, through his therapeutic attitude of being nonjudgmental, noncondemning, n...
"A not infrequent and easily overlooked function of [psychotherapeutic] rituals is to provide a face-saving way for a patient to abandon a symptom or complaint without admitting th...
"If one treats a depressive person as masochistic, one may provoke increased depression and even suicide, as the client will feel both blamed and abandoned. If one treats a masochi...