Opinion of Vika Pekarskaya
Given: a person steps on the same rake. He hurts.
He comes to a psychologist, he sees this — and draws him a workaround (or any other: say, teaches how to clean a rake) — then controls that he does it correctly a couple of times, and lets him train.
Therapist and client. Client: I’m in pain here. Therapist: look, it’s you, it’s your leg, it’s a rake. When your leg does like this, the rake does like this. You hurt. All. Whether a person advances further or not, whether he removes them or bypasses them, it is up to him to decide. If you need help, you will have to say it again and continue working.
The psychologist, to a MORE extent than the psychotherapist, plays an expert role.
But again, this is a generalization. Behavioral therapists work in a similar way—similar to the way I have described psychologists. And psychoanalysts take an even more expert position than anyone else.