The Third Mind Aruna Gopakumar

Often a client may share something in passing that creates some emotions in you. You wonder how what the client has shared is significant for your work. How do you bring it up with your client? What is your remit as a therapist? Apart from dealing with these questions, this episode highlights inner conflicts that can be created for therapists when their values differ from those of their clients, and what they can do about it

In this episode, therapists talk about how their unconscious identification with the client can impact the therapeutic relationship. We also explore different meanings of the word "diagnosis".

This episode is about therapists being mindful about how they may go "out of their way" for clients and how that has a potential for harm. It highlights games as unconscious, bilateral processes

This episode brings to you the challenge of a therapist who unwittingly became part of a three cornered contract. It also talks about the potential for symbiotic invitations in therapy.