Tritt Ashley, Kelly Jonathan, Waller Glenn
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, McGill University and Project Heal.
BEAT (Eating Disorders Association).
Psychotherapy (Chic). 2015 Sep;52(3):373-80. doi: 10.1037/a0038711. Epub 2015 Apr 13.
Many psychotherapists have cried in a therapy session. Those clinicians who do cry see it as likely to have a positive impact on the therapy or to have no impact, and therapist personality characteristics have not shown reliable associations to crying in therapy. However, it is not known how patients experience therapists' crying, or whether the patient's view of the therapist's characteristics is related to that experience. This study used an online survey, recruiting 202 patients with eating disorders, 188 of whom had received therapy for an eating disorder, and 105 of whom had experienced a therapist crying. Retrospective data from those 105 individuals indicated that therapists' crying tended to be seen positively, by patients but that perception was influenced by the patients' perceptions of the demeanor of their therapist and their understanding of the meaning of the crying. Although they need to be extended to other disorders, these findings suggest that therapists' crying needs to be understood in the context of the therapist's perceived characteristics and demeanor, rather than being assumed to be positive or to have no impact on the therapy.
许多心理治疗师在治疗过程中哭过。那些哭过的临床医生认为这可能会对治疗产生积极影响，或者没有影响，而且治疗师的个性特征与在治疗中哭泣并没有可靠的关联。然而，目前尚不清楚患者如何看待治疗师的哭泣，或者患者对治疗师特征的看法是否与这种经历有关。本研究采用在线调查的方式，招募了202名饮食失调患者，其中188人接受过饮食失调治疗，105人经历过治疗师哭泣。来自这105人的回顾性数据表明，患者倾向于对治疗师的哭泣持积极看法，但这种看法受到患者对治疗师举止的看法以及他们对哭泣含义的理解的影响。尽管这些发现需要扩展到其他疾病，但它们表明，治疗师的哭泣需要在治疗师的感知特征和举止的背景下进行理解，而不是被假定为对治疗有积极影响或没有影响。
