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I didn't pay for it, it was a session I had with a therapist from Mind. I'd been waiting 2 years to see someone and eventually gave up and found a private therapist I could just afford. 6 months in I got a letter with an appointment.I went and she honestly spent the entire session going over anxiety techniques, all of which I was already doing and talking nonstop about herself and other people she had helped and the good work the centre was doing and when I eventually got a word in and explained that it was actually depression that I was referred for, she suggested that I pull activities out of a jar when struggling with suicidal thoughts then told me that it was best not to spend sessions dwelling on suicidal thoughts as she would have to recommend hospitalisation if I mentioned it again. Then I told her that during the wait I had been seeing a private therapist and she had a go at me and said that I should have told the charity. I'd had 18 months with no contact with them at all and it was MY responsibility to keep them up to date? Pointing out that they had left a suicidal, depressed person waiting for 2 years without so much as a phone call to check I was still alive didn't go down well.The clincher? St the end when I left, she called me back to ask my name. She didn't even remember who she was talking to. I mean, I know you can't memorise an entire intake form but at least you should remember the clients name!Needless to say I didn't go back to her and the private therapist was stunned when I told him about my week. I've stayed with him and have never ever felt that I couldn't bring up something that was bothering me.

What is the best way to work with splitting?To understand how to work with “Splitting,” it is first necessary to understand what “Splitting” is, how it comes about, and the purpose it serves.What is “Splitting?”“Splitting” is the name for a psychological defense where the self and other people are seen as either “all-good” or “all-bad.” In general, the ability to integrate good and bad, liked and disliked qualities, into a coherent whole that simultaneously contains both, is considered to be an important developmental achievement that begins in early childhood.Why does “Splitting” persist into adulthood?There are three basic reasons that children either do not ever learn to form an integrated and realistic view of themselves and other people or rely on using “Spliiting” after attaining the ability to see people in a more integrated wayTheir parents used “Splitting” and because of that could not teach their children by example to see the world in a more integrated way.Their parents were so extreme in their behavior that it was impossible for the children to form an integrated picture of their parents or themselves.The bad would outweigh the good, if the children saw their parents realistically. Therefore, in order for children in this situation to feel any sense of security, they have to focus very narrowly only on their parents’ good qualities. Often they take all the bad and attribute it to themselves. For example, the child tells himself: “I am bad and unlovable now, but if I do better, Mommy and Daddy will love me and take care of me.”How to undo “Splitting:” There are a number of steps involved and each client is different, so I will give the simplified general version here.Step 1: Determine the client’s readinessNot all clients are far enough advanced to tolerate seeing themselves and others in an integrated way. “Splitting” is a defense against very painful feelings. The therapist needs to assess each client's level of readiness. Let me give you an example.My Mother is a Saint: Imagine your new client comes to therapy and in the course of the intake tells you: “My mother is a Saint!” This is likely to be evidence of “Splitting.” Here is the usual translation of what this means for the client:My childhood was terrible.My father was terrible.I am terrible.I use splitting to preserve my mother as the “good one.”I am not ready yet to see things more realistically.If you, the therapist, in a misguided attempt to help, prematurely try to get your client to see their mother more realistically, you will likely cause your client to actually get much worse!This client’s mental stability is like a table precariously balanced on only one leg—the belief that “mother is good”. Take away that one leg and the table falls. In “splitting” terms, now the client is left with no sense of good at all. Everything becomes all bad.Solution: Wait until you have done more therapy work and the client has identified you or someone else as an additional internal support. These clients need a lot of work on their childhood trauma before I worry about undoing their protective “Splitting”.If you believe that your client has sufficient internal and external support, here are some simple methods that you can use:Step 2: Listen to your clients’ choice of words“Splitting” is often indicated by the clients’ choice of words. I listen for extreme language, such as words like—always, never, jerk, perfect, special, worthless, unlovable, ugly, etc.Step 3: Ask them for a more nuanced descriptionUse a Rating Scale: if my client says that he is worthless garbage, I might ask: “On a scale of one to ten, where one = Not really worthless and 10 = The most worthless thing imaginable, where are you?”With one of my Narcissistic clients who had a good sense of humor, when he told me he was a 10, I said: “Now you are bragging again!”. He was startled into laughing at the absurdity of claiming to be the most worthless thing. He eventually gave himself a 9 rating, which was progress.Ask for a more nuanced description: My client Sherry used to give the same brief description of each new young man she dated: “He’s so cute and sweet and nice.”. When they broke up, she dismissed each of them in the same unnuanced way: “He turned out to be a real jerk!” When I judged that Sherry was ready, I said something like: “Sherry, I can no longer tell them apart. You describe them all with exactly the same words in the beginning: “Cute, sweet, and nice” (her words for all-good) and then at the end, each one becomes a “Real jerk” (her word for all-bad). Please tell me how they each differ in the way they are jerks.”. After we did this a few times, Sherry began to spontaneously interrupt herself when she started using these words and gave me a more nuanced answer.Step 4: Undoing between session splittingYour client's last session went very well. When she left, you were very pleased to hear her talking about herself in an integrated and non-split way. Now she comes into the next session enacting her all-bad split version of herself. She is depressed and self-hating and calls herself a “worthless piece of garbage”. She also does not notice any incongruity between this and how she was at the end of her last session. You become her memory and feed her a few questions that you hope will jog hers:Do you remember last session? If she says “yes” I go on to the next question. If not, I might remind her of one of the topics she spoke about. When she can remember the last session in a general way, I go on to the next question.Do you remember how you felt about yourself at the end of the session? If she cannot remember, I might say something like: “Well, I remember that you were very pleased with yourself because you had some new awarenesses. Do you remember saying that?”. Once she can remember how she was at the end of her last session, I continue.What happened between then and now to make you feel so bad about yourself? Sometimes I have to go through the entire week with her day by day until we hit on the event that created the painful feelings that flipped her back into splitting again. Usually, once these events are in awareness and we work on them in therapy, she is able to see herself again in a more realistic and integrated way.Summary: During childhood, “splitting” often served an adaptive purpose by preserving at least one parent as the “good one” and giving the child hope. After a while, “splitting” became a habit which distorted reality and interfered with the person’s life and limited his or her personal growth. The above suggestions for undoing “splitting” are merely meant as general examples. Each client is different and therapy works the best when you adapt your interventions to meet your specific client's needs.A2AElinor Greenberg, PhD, CGPIn private practice in NYC and the author of the book: Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety.www.elinorgreenberg.com