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CERTIFICATES – After years of serving as a psychologist for a suffering parent, some dare to offer psychotherapy to their father or mother. But is this really the role of a child? And how to convince when resistance or skepticism is severe?
For his 35the On her birthday, Juliet only asked for one present from her mother, 61, to start psychotherapy. The sentence came out of his mouth “just like that”, without thinking about it, during another “heavy” discussion during the Paris-Lisbon flight. “Pffff!” This is the onomatopoeia the thirty-year-old received in response, accompanied by two raised eyes and one “you’re not serious.” Juliet, however, was. He and his sister have already suggested dozens of times to their mother for counseling so that she can soothe her wounds. “She recovered from breast cancer 30 years ago but never accepted it,” explains Juliet. He never really understood why he survived when so many others around them died. From then on, it was as if he had forbidden himself to be happy.” The young woman feels particularly angry. Her suffering overwhelms her and disrupts the mother-daughter relationship. “But he is far from saying that psychotherapy…
Source: Le Figaro
