Tell Me About Your Mother
Welcome to “Tell Me About Your Mother,” a podcast for psychotherapists by psychotherapists, where we explore issues related to our profession, filtering them through our professional, and sometimes personal and humorous, lens. Each episode, Evan and Melissa offer food for thought by bringing their experience and humanity to help you strengthen your practice of psychotherapy. We would love to connect with you at contactus@tellmeaboutyourmother.run.
Tell Me About Your Mother
Episode 17: Smother Mothers
In this episode, Evan shares his experience with a virtual family client. Evan, Eli, and Melissa reflect upon how the family system creates unwanted feelings and responses from all involved and that common lack of emotional trust in families. Please join us as we navigate interpersonal communication by also contemplating:
- Inviting families to go beyond the "presenting problem"
- Families passing the anxiety “hot potato”
- Parents enabling adult children vs. parenting
- Random tear bombs!
- You don’t have to understand it to treat it
- Scapegoating
- Countertransference can be used tactfully
- Mother’s anxiety suggesting hidden rage
- Smother mothers
- Members of family being responsibly irresponsible to maintain relationship cohesion
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