Using the "change triangle" to process emotions

[Ellen]

I find this a useful paradigm for processing emotions, and is entirely consistent with Sarno. The author's new book It's Not Always Depression looks good, too.

https://www.hilaryjacobshendel.com/what-is-the-change-triangle-c18dd (Hilary Jacobs Hendel, Author, Psychotherapist, The Change Triangle)

 

[Duggit]

Thanks for posting this, Ellen. It is no accident that the triangle of change she describes is entirely consistent with Sarno. Sarno's chief psychologist and long-time colleague, Arlene Feinblatt, was trained in ISTDP and used that to treat patients that Sarno referred to her. In a part of The Divided Mind that she wrote, she called it Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, omitting the first word, Intensive, which might be off-putting to some. Malan's triangle of conflict is one of the pillars of ISTDP, the other main one being the triangle of the person. When I see people on this forum say, "I journal and journal and journal, but I don't get any better," I can't help but wonder how much of that is because their defenses, of which they are unaware, distract them from journaling about the right things.