ARE YOU A SCULPTOR OR A PAINTER?

In his book, Psychotherapy of Neurotic Character (1999), psychoanalyst David Shapiro provides a lot of updating on the old psychoanalytic model. Moving beyond Freud, he emphasizes the importance of the client’s responsibility, the goal of the client beco333ming self-determining, a much less importance of the past as he stresses the importance of the here-and-now. I found his book refreshing from the old Freudian view. Then I came across the following passage which, when I read it out loud to Geraldine, she said, “You ought to let the Meta-Coaches hear that!” So, here goes.