Paul Salkovskis

[PhilM]

I don't want to sabotage another thread but I couldn't understand Taffy mentioning Paul Salkovskis?

[Taffy]

I asked him about the theory of treatment resistant OCD/BDD, this was his response -

"Treatment Resitant" Tends to be therapist failure attributed to client characteristics. It's a dumb idea widely disseminated. - sigh - ?

Just thought it was interesting as they usually try to find a personality flaw to explain it but this was interesting.

[Ashley]

Paul is right, I don't think anybody is treatment resistant... but sometimes some people are resistant to change (usually out of fear), but job of therapist is to help a person choose to change.

[Taffy]

13 minutes ago, Ashley said:

Paul is right, I don't think anybody is treatment resistant... but sometimes some people are resistant to change (usually out of fear), but job of therapist is to help a person choose to change.

Agreed.

[PhilM]

Thank you for clarifying.