Sublime

Often an undermothered adult child will have a great need to feel that the therapist is not just providing care because it’s his or her job (like Mom) but that this time the caring is personal.

But what was most unusual was how Pesso created tableaus—or as he called them, “structures”—of the protagonists’ past. As the narratives unfolded, group participants were asked to play the roles of significant people in the protagonists’ lives, such as parents and other family members, so that their inner world began to take form in three-dimension

Telling your mother’s story (an exercise)