The client complains of difficulty sleeping because her upstairs neighbor is beaming shock waves through the ceiling from his strange “electrical machine” aimed at her bed. She reports that hospitalization and psychotherapy, including medication, has not helped. In the style Steve is famous for, the unedited first session demonstrates the process of “radical acceptance” of the client’s view as a way to build a useful therapeutic relationship, to find exceptions, and how to use scaling questions. The client returns for the second session having discovered her own ingenious solution to the problem that has plagued her. |
