THE FEAR OF REJECTION: A ONE-DAY CURE
By Harriet Lerner
Cured in a day? It happened like this:
I was surprised to get a call from Frank, a former therapy client who now lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His work was bringing him back to Kansas for a two-day seminar, and he wanted to know if I would meet with him. I hadn’t seen Frank since he and his wife, Ann, terminated marital therapy with me many years earlier. They appeared to be doing well, but Frank told me that shortly after they moved to Tulsa, Ann ended their marriage. Frank was devastated at the time, but he reported that he was now doing fine—“except for one thing.”
“What’s the problem?” I asked.
“Maybe I was traumatized by the divorce,” Frank replied, “but ever since Ann left me,
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By Harriet Lerner
Cured in a day? It happened like this:
I was surprised to get a call from Frank, a former therapy client who now lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His work was bringing him back to Kansas for a two-day seminar, and he wanted to know if I would meet with him. I hadn’t seen Frank since he and his wife, Ann, terminated marital therapy with me many years earlier. They appeared to be doing well, but Frank told me that shortly after they moved to Tulsa, Ann ended their marriage. Frank was devastated at the time, but he reported that he was now doing fine—“except for one thing.”
“What’s the problem?” I asked.
“Maybe I was traumatized by the divorce,” Frank replied, “but ever since Ann left me,
click here for the rest of the excerpt from Dr. Lerner's book:
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