27 April 2009
Dear James, one thing Jeannine never failed to enquire of us, whether it was in supervision, consultation or even in casual conversation… was how we established and nurtured mutuality with our clients, our students, etc… for it is the basic ingredient for any maturation or therapeutic undertaking. Obviously, this supposes we are trying to establish some kind of significant relationship. Mutuality has little to do with feeling, but rather with observation of the other and how the other responds to stimuli that we send out, consciously and not so consciously. It is the careprovider, or the therapist, or the teacher… that must observe the effect of the stimuli on the recipient, and decide the adjustment of the “dose”.