Elie Schulman: Does Therapy Work? A Patient’s Journey [Mental Health 3/6]

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

friend cuz you need a sounding board for somebody in your life to really speak through and really address and unpack so many of the things that you're dealing with. And we can't always turn to hierarchical relationships and sometimes you literally should pay for your friends generosity, treat them. If you read this Mishna carefully, especially the commentaries, the Rambam and the Rabbenu Yonah which is on the spot, it's the first chapter of Pirkei Avot, the sixth Mishna, one would not be crazy if they thought that they are describing therapy. Meaning acquire for yourself a therapist may not be, you know, like therapist may not be, you know, like your actual friend. You don't hang out with them, but you are literally paying somebody to talk out some of your issues with. And the truth is, for a lot of people this is why therapy is almost so uncomfortable where you feel like the financial transaction you're like, do you really even care about me? Now, I'm addressing this because I think it is a issue and a boundary for many people. Not a boundary, it is a boundary. It's a necessary boundary for the entire therapeutic process to work, but for a lot of people where they just want some sincerity and honesty, they feel almost

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1. 1:15friend cuz you need a sounding board for somebody in your life to really speak through…
2. 6:48shared with me that even in high school that he had very real issues that he…
3. 12:57myself against others started to distract me. So, I would guess that was probably the first…
4. 18:37knew this at the time or appreciated it, but he was a world-class group psychoanalyst. He…
5. 24:40how you finally, so to speak, introduced yourself verbally to the group after sitting there for…
6. 30:44Step outside for a second from the group component of the conversation, and while all of…
7. 36:27like are you like it really disrupted me the way that professional identity, especially in the…
8. 42:32The introduction of meditation, why did you introduce that as part of your practice? And I…
9. 49:11opened me up again over the last like seven years. It was a rebbe of mine…
10. 55:26yourself. And if you have too little, you might not even know that it's a little…

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