This article discusses the therapeutic management of issues related to patients' previous psychotherapies. Therapy has a powerful impact on a person's life and is structured (setting, specific techniques, etc.) deliberately for this purpose. However, this impact is not always useful and can, in fact, have a negative effect by reinforcing or promoting limiting script decisions. Using clinical examples, the author describes interventions and some of the technical and deontological implications of prior psychotherapy.
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