Reversal
The boy’s tongue is thick /
and inexact /
and his lips will not arrange themselves . . .
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Listening to the unspoken
“Kill yourself!” The client repeated this countless times throughout our counselling session. This tic had been observed and discussed as evidence of the client’s experience of tourette’s syndrome, and now neither of us bothered reacting to its presence. Instead, it functioned as an indicator of the client’s stress level – utterances would increase as we…
