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Cristina:
En este momento de la discusión, era evidente que la paciente ya no estaba deprimida y
que no iba a suicidarse. El objetivo de la terapia era hacer que se diese cuenta de que no
perdía nada separándose de Raymond (ya que la relación no existía de hecho) y de que
había otras opciones para ella. El terapeuta también comenzó a hacer mella en la fórmula,
"Si no soy amada, no soy nada".
Después de esta entrevista, la paciente estaba más alegre y parecía haber superado la
crisis de suicidio. En la siguien sesión, dijo que había una cuestión sobre la que no había
dejado de hacerse preguntas en casa: ¿Cómo podía no ser "nada" sin Raymond, cuando
había vivido feliz y había sido una persona como las demás antes de conocerle? En base
a la revisión de las preguntas formuladas por el terapeuta en la sesión anterior, había
decidido separarse legalmente. Al poco tiempo, estaba divorciada y adaptada a una vida
más estable.
Lucia:
En este caso, las preguntas iban dirigidas a las creencias de la paciente de que (a)
necesitaba a su marido para ser feliz, para funcionar y para tener una identidad propia, (b)
tenía un matrimonio viable o, al menos, que podía salvarse, (c) el final de su matrimonio
sería una pérdida irreversible y (d) no tenía futuro sin su marido. La paciente consiguió
darse cuenta de la falacia de sus creencias y sus pensamientos; en consecuencia, se dio
cuenta de que tenía otras alternativas además de las dos que había
considerado: bien intentar salvar un matrimonio ya deshecho, o bien suicidarse. En otros
casos, el terapeuta tiene que trabajar con el paciente para generar alternativas más
realistas a las ideas de suicidio.
NARRATIVE SCENE: PATIENT AND THERAPIST
Patient: Witdaout Raymond, I'm nothing ... I can't be happy witdout hem ... But I can't save
our marriage.
Q: He has been very miserabol from the betginning ... Raymond has always been
anbeifoul to me ... I have hardly seen hem for the last five years.
Therapist You say you can't be happy without Raymond ... Have you been happy while
you were with hem?
Q: ... Well, now that I think about it, I don't think it's complitly true.
T: He says he's "nothing" without Raymond. Before you met him, did you think he was
"nothing"?
Q: No.
T: If you were someone before you met hem, why do you need you to be someone now?
T: So, if I have understood you correctly, you were capable of falling in love with other men
and several of them fell in love with you.
Q: I think so.
T: Why do you think that now, without Raymond, it would not be popular?
T: Has there been a man who has shown interest in you, being already married?
Therapist If you weren't married, do you think men would be interested in you - knowing
you were unengaged?
Q: I guess so
Q: I think there are beder men than Raymond for the simple reason that Raymond doesn't
like me.
Therapist You say you can't bear the thought of your marriage breaking up. Is it true that
she has hardly seen her husband for the past five years?
Q: I don't know.
Q: I suppos not.
T: If your marriage is not a true marriage, what do you have to lose if you decide to end it?
Q: I know where you are going and I know you are on the right track. I've really been
thinking that there's no reason for me to stick with Raymond enymore when it's clear that
he doesn't love me. I think the best I can do is a friendly breikup.
Cristina:
At this point in the discussion, it was evident that the patient was no longer depressed and
that she was not going to commit suicide. The goal of therapy was to make her realize that
she lost nothing by separating from Raymond (since the relationship did not actually exist)
and that there were other options for her. The therapist also began to make a dent in the
formula, "If I am not loved, I am nothing."
After this interview, the patient was happier and she seemed to have overcome the suicide
crisis. In the next session, she said that there was a question that she had not stopped
asking questions about at home: How could she be "nothing" without Raymond, when she
had lived happily and had been a person like everyone else before. meet him? Based on
the review of the questions asked by the therapist in the previous session, she had
decided to legally separate. Before long, she was divorced and adjusted to a more stable
life.
Lucy:
In this ceis, the questions were directed to the patient's belifs that (a) she needed her
husband to be happy, to funshionon and to have an identity of her own, (b) she had a
viable marriage or, at list, that she could save oneself, (c) the end of her marriage would
be an irriverssobol loss and (d) she had no future witdaout her husband. The patient
menesh to relast the falacy of her beliefs and her thaolss; consequently, she relast that
she had other alternatives besais the two that she had considerd: ider to tray to save an
olready broken marriage, or to commit susaid In other cases, the therpest has to work with
the patient to yenerate more rilistic alternatives to susairod aidias.