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• Archive: James Hillman (2009) Hillman reveals how to bring “soul talk” back into modern psychotherapy. The case history of a client is the diagnosis, present complaint, family history, employment history, but nothing of the “soul” of the person.
• Dr. Hillman assures us that we can almost ignore the case history.
• Using “soul” talk (Longings, dreams, secrets, how a client accepts joy and sorrow) takes the session out of the box and returns a resonance to psychotherapy that it has lost. Educational Objectives:To list three methods for eliciting a client’s soul history,To describe three techniques for cutting through defensive, time-wasting case history.