Therapy
治疗
Gloria's therapy dealt with a number of significant themes which repeated themselves again and again in seemingly endless variety. The basic issues were repeated and rehearsed countless times over the course of several years—to the extent that I often felt a sense of exasperation and frustration. When these issues were raised and discussed, it so often seemed that the previous discussions of the same matters had left no impression on Gloria whatsoever—the insights apparently gained seemed lost and obliterated. Yet I resolved early in her treatment that there was no recourse but to deal with each representation of a given aspect of her experience as if it had arisen this time for the first time, as though she and I had never heard it before. Only after the matter had been explored again would I relate it to previous discussions, and then only to bring in material from previous discussions and relate it to the present focus rather than reminding Gloria that we had been over the same ground several times before. There was a strong need in her to deny the work of therapy and preserve the fragile status quo.
格洛丽亚的治疗涉及到许多重要的主题,这些主题以似乎无穷无尽的变化一遍又一遍地重复着。在几年的时间里,这些基本问题被重复和演练了无数次,以至于我经常感到恼怒和沮丧。当这些问题被提出和讨论的时候,格洛丽亚似乎经常觉得以前对同样问题的讨论并没有给她留下任何印象——她所获得的洞见似乎消失了。然而,在她接受治疗的初期,我就下定决心,没有别的办法,只能处理她经历的某一方面的每一次再现,仿佛这是她和我第一次听到它。只有在这个问题再次得到探讨之后,我才会把它同以前的讨论联系起来,然后才会从以前的讨论中拿出材料,把它同目前的重点联系起来,而不是提醒格洛里亚我们以前曾多次讨论过同样的问题。她有一种强烈的需要,拒绝接受治疗工作,保持脆弱的现状。
One of the primary issues that recurred in this fashion was Gloria's highly ambivalent relationships with her parents. Her ability to resolve the conflicting sides of this intense ambivalence was minimal. From session to session she would shift from one side of the ambivalence to the other, sometimes within a single session. At one point she would be enraged at and hate her mother and feel that her father was her only salvation, wishing to cling to him and totally reject her mother. At another time she would feel nothing but revulsion and hatred for her father and express her strong yearning for closeness and acceptance from her mother. She would vacillate between these extremes of love and hate for both parents.
以这种方式反复出现的一个主要问题是格洛里亚与父母之间高度矛盾的关系。她解决这种强烈矛盾心理冲突方面的能力微乎其微。从一次会谈到另一次会谈,她会从矛盾心理的一边转移到另一边,有时是在一次会谈之内。有一段时间,她会对母亲感到愤怒和憎恨,觉得父亲是她唯一的救星,希望紧紧抓住他,完全拒绝母亲。另一段时间,她只会对父亲感到厌恶和憎恨,表达她对母亲的亲近和接纳的强烈渴望。她会在对父母的爱与恨之间摇摆不定。