| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:ethical milton and grinder |
| Posted by: | nj |
| Date/Time: | 01/11/2003 23:07:34 |
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Hello, d. Reading over your post, I decided to reply to your statement, quoted in quote (1). (1) "the content I introduce is mostly in the form of practices (go out and build a helicopter of grief because it will lift your spirits) or ideas that get them to step outside the box." Maybe you mean step outside your office, d. And not come back. In some lucky context, the statement: (2) d:"Go out and build a helicopter of grief because it will lift your spirits." might be therapeutic. But that lucky context is not necessarily a context where: (3) the context is one in which the client has a problem of a particular type. Proposition (3) refers to a context defined by a particular problem, for example, the problem of suffering low self-esteem after a failed romantic love. Your success at satisfying your (hopefully) positive perlocutionary intent with the locution (2) seems chancy. Nothing about locution (2) would necessarily do the job for you. One thing that locution (2) might do is let you be mean to your client. Locution (2) might continue to be worthwhile for you if you value being mean, but locution (2) would only be therapeutic for your client when you're lucky. Of course, you could have Milton Erickson's skill, and mastery of (non)verbal rapport, and his added ability to establish cultural rapport with his clients. If so, then you probably make locution (2) only when you're certain that it will satisfy your perlocutionary intent for it. But in quote (1) you wrote: (3) "..or ideas that get them to step outside the box." So I have a question for you. My question is: (4) Does getting a client to step outside the box liberate them from a patterned response that determined that client's malfunctional emotional responses? Or, alternatively: (5) Do you prevent further neuroses in your client by shocking them with locutions containing semantic content, content that convincingly evinces disbelief in the suppositions that your client's neuroses depend upon? And, alternatively: (6) Have you tried drilling holes into the head of a romantic client, to see if you can get his romantic notions to dribble out? -nj |