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Carina Håkansson

Psychosis, 2012, vol. 4, issue 1, 81-86

Abstract: This paper attempts to convey what it feels like to be with another person who has experienced, and continues to experience, terror. The author has worked for almost 25 years in a service she runs in Sweden based on providing alternative ‘family homes’ for children and adults (Håkansson, 2009; Mackler, 2011) most of whom have been repeatedly hospitalized. The paper tries to communicate the most fundamental requirement for working with extreme emotional states, the ability to sit with another’s pain without feeling that one has to, or can, immediately alleviate that pain and without denying how that pain relates to one’s own feelings and experiences. This paper attempts to convey what it feels like to be with another person who has experienced, and continues to experience, terror. The author has worked for almost 25 years in a service she runs in Sweden based on providing alternative ‘family homes’ for children and adults (Håkansson, 2009; Mackler, 2011) most of whom have been repeatedly hospitalized. The paper tries to communicate the most fundamental requirement for working with extreme emotional states, the ability to sit with another’s pain without feeling that one has to, or can, immediately alleviate that pain and without denying how that pain relates to one’s own feelings and experiences.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2011.613999

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