(from larval subjects):
Wilfred Bion seems to do quite a good job of learning from his patients. See: http://www.human-nature.com/free-associations/glover/chap4.html
I would be a bit worried, however, about a patient centred therapy practice, just from a theoretical point of view. It sounds too much like the “child centred” educational practices of late, which allow the children to remain just as they are in terms of their inherent nature. That is, they project onto female teachers the image of their mummy, and onto male teachers the image of their authoritarian fathers — and never the twain shall meet! If female teachers do not behave much like their mummies, in a nurturing, and pacifying way, then they will have no natural authority over such children. And that is a shame. Because women have so much more capacity to be something other than mummy figures, but the return to nature trend of Western culture tend to reinforce these patterns of gender as the only stereotypes that “work”.
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I love the phrase: Larval Subjects.
It sounds so squishy and grub-like and totally disgusting.
Your use of Mummy, as an American, all I can visualize is a female wrapped in moth-eaten bandages wearing an Egyptian type something or other while gesturing angrily at the chalkboard.
HA.
You are dead on, though, with the observation. I have a friend who is experiencing the rug yank of "You are not nice like my Mommy, so I dont have to listen to you Beotch!"
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