The work of a psychologist: Interesting and Useful 1051 Good afternoon, Dear Friends! Supervision helps to raise your professional level. My examples are below, I hope you will not only like them, but will also be additionally interested in supervision, since it is there that you can learn something similar to work with your clients. When a client smokes during a session, he can light up some of his experiences. I have already written about this. Therefore, smoking is not very useful in this regard for therapy. But it may also be that smoking, on the contrary, helps you to collect yourself and calm down. In those situations, this can be useful, for example, when the client goes into overdrive. For example, in family therapy, when some kind of conflict is unfolding right here and now. If you can talk about smoking more constructively, then let them smoke for their health. Then, probably, you can give up this crutch. If we talk about the same family therapy from the example above, then at the first meeting, we can somehow abruptly prohibit smoking, and then face aggression (hitting - retaliating - at us) to us from clients (family). We may even think that they are very borderline in character. We may think that this is the main reason for their conflicts. But it could also be aggression towards us personally for banning smoking. And a consequence of a general increase in tension, since it could not be reduced in the usual way. For example, in our work we deal with projective identification. Our client attributes something, for example, his aggressiveness, to other people. In particular, here it is important to figure out together with the client what he is inventing about the people around him himself, and what really is. If the client in the situation above understands that others are not really attacking him in any way, he himself tells us about this initially, then this looks like a neurotic level of development. That is, everything is fine with our client in terms of mental health. I hope that you found it useful and that you found the supervision even more attractive than before. Thank you for your attention! I look forward to your responses! Sign up for a consultation: + 7 - 9 6 5 - 3 1 7 - 5 6 - 1 2 If you liked the material, please click on “Say thanks”! In order not to miss anything interesting, subscribe to my publications! And please share, material on social networks! :)