Welcome to Back from the Abyss.

This is a place for stories of hope and healing, recovery, and redemption.

I'm Dr. Craig Hecock.

There are still a few spots left in my intensive psychotherapy workshop in June,

geared for psychiatric NPs and PAs.

It's called Bringing Therapy into Med Management.

It will run June 3 through 6 here in Fort Collins.

This is a chance to learn how to break out of the short-sighted and terribly limited

med management model into a more holistic, psychodynamic, and patient-centered way of

practicing. Check out my website for more details and registration. This solo episode today

is a little bite of the workshop that I do with Hillary McBride, which is called I love you,

I hate you, are you my mom. If you are a mental health clinician and you find this stuff

compelling, you should definitely

join Hillary and me at our next workshop, which will be in Chilliwack, British Columbia,

just outside of Vancouver, June 18th through 20th. See my website for more info and registration.

And now, the hidden minefield of positive countertransference.

So one of the ongoing instructions for therapists is that we need to try to do the work.

Therapists got to do their own work.

But what does that mean?

What is the work?

Does it simply mean that therapists should go to therapy and or have ongoing consultation?

Well, I say yes, it does in part mean this.

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