So I had a client who was afraid that he would cut himself
And he was afraid that if he was on top of a building
That he would jump off to his death. And one of the exercises we worked out
was that he would sit at the top of his building,
near the edge with a knife.
And that’s a very frightening thing to do as a therapist, Because he’s saying, look I have this
impulse to slash my throat and to jump off a building,
and I thought, well,
why don’t you confront both at the same time.
Now, look, the outcome is not always perfect...
