Tango
The opening chapter is about a marathon session dealing with an Anorexia Nervosa patient using the Family Therapy technique devised by Minuchin who is from Argentina: home of Tango.
.......Having been introduced to Minuchin’s “Tango" in Child Psychiatry, one day I found myself
dancing the routine without any premeditation or preparation.
......."Her apparent naivety was dangerously inducing
collusion. You had better not start to
feel sorry for this possible future Cambridge educated
model. Watch out because conflict
avoidance might well be contagious."
........"I was now struck by the manifestation of
enmeshment, and all the Jungian teaching about failure of Individuation was making
sense. Not eating was indeed a final
desperate attempt at individuation and this good doctor was plotting to destroy
it."
Exposing the dilemma faced by psychiatrists and indeed doctors in general!
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