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Your Friend Is Confiding in You That He Is Getting

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Your friend is confiding in you that he is getting a divorce from his wife of 10 years.They have two children aged 6 and 8 years.He knows that he is unlikely to get custody and is afraid that he will not see his children as much as he would like.What suggestions do you have for him? What would you recommend?


Definitions:

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a therapeutic approach and theory of mental illness that attributes thoughts and behaviors to unconscious motives and conflicts.

Transference

In psychoanalysis, the tendency for a patient or client to project positive or negative feelings for important people from the past onto the therapist.

Countertransference

In psychotherapy, it refers to the emotions and projections that the therapist may feel towards the patient.

Free Association

A psychoanalytic process in which patients express their thoughts freely, letting their mind wander without censorship, to uncover unconscious thoughts and feelings.

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