If we assume that, like most people, a psychotherapist chooses his or her profession for conscious or unconscious reasons related to his or her own script, what good or bad comes of this motivation? What becomes of a psychotherapist's script in all its richness during therapeutic work with clients? Do psychotherapists work with or against their scripts?
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