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“One of the areas in which a therapist may be the most vulnerable to making mistakes is in being overly invested in a particular theoretical model. We must be able to call our techniques into question when they are not adequate for a particular client. Psychotherapists become overly identified with a particular theoretical model early in their careers as a way of managing their own anxieties and uncertainty. They may then become all too willing to attack colleagues whose models are different from theirs and potentially threatening and destabilizing.”
― William F. Cornell, Self-examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Countertransference and Subjectivity in Clinical Practice