Least Favorite Clients and Bob Kissing a Coworker
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
00:00 Least Favorite Clients and Bob Kissing a Coworker
00:06 Our favorite clients
18:56 Therapists wearing wedding rings
25:10 OPP
26:57 Therapists filing for bankruptcy
32:49 Session preparation
38:18 Suicidal clients
56:38 Attachment style interpretation
58:49 Trauma triggering BPD
1:11:43 Narcissist pointers
1:13:31 Behavioral disorders in children
1:16:19 Clinical psychology vs. counseling pathways
1:21:07 Mean spirited thoughts
1:30:28 Living within capitalism
1:37:59 Dr. Kirk & Bob's previous jobs
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| 0:00.0 | So Bob, keep that image in your mind as we do this podcast. What do you say? |
| 0:06.2 | This first email is from patron Marta from Eastern Europe. She says, hi, Dr. Kirk and Bob, |
| 0:11.2 | do therapists have their favorite and least favorite clients? Be a hundred percent real, |
| 0:16.9 | please. You both make my life brighter every day and Bob, you specifically. I never thought |
| 0:22.4 | I could have so much love and respect for someone whom I've never met. We share similar struggles |
| 0:26.8 | and my heart goes out to you every time I hear you on the podcast. Thank you for that. |
| 0:30.9 | Thank you. So Marta says, do therapists have their favorite and least favorite clients? |
| 0:37.5 | Be a hundred percent real, please, Bob. What do you think? Yeah. In a way, I mean, there's certain people |
| 0:42.5 | that you have like valence with and other people that you have to learn how to have valence with. |
| 0:47.9 | But I heard Marta Linhan say once it's in your interest to love your clients, all of them, |
| 0:53.1 | which practically speaking I think is true. Now Colleen doesn't like it when I say that because |
| 0:57.4 | it's sort of like she thinks it's just this big game. But what I've discovered about empathy is |
| 1:01.6 | in order to have it, you really do have to make effort at it, especially with somebody who |
| 1:07.6 | with whom you can't relate or with whom your counter-transference gets you know set off your own |
| 1:12.5 | kind of, you know, whatever gets set off. Actually, there could be transference too. Your own |
| 1:17.9 | kind of whatever gets set off. Do I have favorites? Yes. Of course I do. I mean, come on. |
| 1:25.1 | And that said, there are many clients I've had over the years where I've really learned |
| 1:30.0 | to love them and learn to appreciate them. And I'm thinking of somebody that I started with |
| 1:35.9 | recently who my first impression was, oh, I don't like. And within just a few weeks, I'm like, |
| 1:42.7 | I really dig this guy. This is a good guy. And now when I see him, I really enjoy him and his |
| 1:48.0 | partner and really lovely. So yes. And then least favorites. Yeah, I do have some least favorites. |
| 1:55.9 | Some people that have been like just fucking horrible to me. Very hard to take. I'm thinking of |
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