While looking at the tape without the intensity of the moment it is clear that he has an unoccupied relationship channel. ‘I can stand up for something. Something . . . went wrong,’ . . . implies that something has happened to him in a relationship which he did not create. Relationship problems happen to him, thus we say that this channel is not occupied.
He must have an edge in that channel since he formulates what he considers to be an impossibility: ‘Speaking, talking things out . . . that doesn’t work.’ When an edge appears, one way to deal with it is to test it directly by saying (whether or not you know the issue), ‘Of course it works.’ Locating the channel of a client’s edge is an important task since this is where their psychological development lies.
I ignore the content of what Sam was trying to say because it was so difficult to comprehend, and relate instead only to the overall disturbance facing Sam.
Amy: It is nice that you came to talk. Sam, what sort of a state are you in, nervous?
Sam, in his excited and agitated state, did not pay attention to my exact question or was not able to understand the meaning of the concept of state, thinking ‘state’ meant ‘place.’
Sam: It is not my place in the house, it is a place where . . . where one works, lives and eats. It is not my place. It is a worker’s house.
I was still trying to make contact with him and therefore switched my theme to his, his ‘home.’
Amy: Isn’t it nice?
Sam: No, there are aggressive, nasty and addicted people there.
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MENTAL RETARDATION: EDGES
Posted: under Anti-Psychotics.
March 22nd, 2011
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