Stop punishing strangers for your past

The Human Diagnostic · May 30, 2026 · 17m

Format: Post-call Runtime: ~8 minutes Source: Psychology , transference and countertransference (Freud; modern relational psychotherapy); the corrective emotional experience (Alexander & French, 1946) I want to tell you about something that happens sometimes that I don't talk about often, because it requires admitting something about the limits of my own objectivity. She called about a heating issue. Standard service call by every external measure. When I got there she was in her mid-sixties, sharp, well-organized, walked me straight to the utility room without any of the small-talk preamble…