Interview #1...
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wordweaverlynn...
1. Where would you like to travel that you haven't been?
Ireland, Greece, and lots of back roads in the USA.
2. August, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Analyze This, The Dream Team, Klute, The Sopranos, Grosse Pointe Blank -- books, movies, and TV shows feature therapists. What do you think of the way various media present your profession (and your clients)?
Good questions. There are so many representations of psychology in the media, and they are so very varied. I do tend to gnash my teeth at some of the representations... Good Will Hunting, a lovely film otherwise, is an example of a movie which seems hell bent on presenting therapy ethical breaches as high drama.
No, therapists don't typically discuss their clients' progress in a restaurant, much less with someone who hasn't been granted disclosure privileges via a formal signed release of information from the client.
No, therapy sessions are not typically held out of doors - yes, it would be nice to, but you just never know which of the people in your life or your client's life will pop up to accidentally overhear something or ask awkward questions about today's little outing.
And no, therapists do not typically get so worked up from a client's well-placed dig that they shove the client into a bank of filing cabinets. That's called countertransference; we deal with it in our own therapy, and we keep our fists to ourselves.
Ok, let me put down the soap box now... :-D
3. You seem to love beads and colored gemstones. What sparked your interest and what feeds it?
I do! *bounce* I first learned to do beadwork at a nursing home where I was working in 1992-1993. I worked in the underfunded recreation department, and we'd make bingo prizes for the elderly residents out of big pony beads (which are about the size of a cocoa-mini-marshmallow, and come in a variety of plastic-looking colors). Not exactly dignified. Later that year I took a trip to San Francisco (I was living in NYC at the time), and wandered through the hippie trippy Haight, and came across an art supplies store. They had a display featuring "How to make friendship bracelets out of seed beads" books, and many colors of seed beads (which are about the size of a grain of cous cous). I taught myself how to make delicate daisy chains on the plane ride home, and I was hooked. The bingo prizes got a lot fancier after that.
Beadwork has always been a part of my life since then. For a while, between 1993 and 1995, I sold my pieces in consignment shops and at street fairs; that wasn't lucrative in itself, but my stuff got noticed by a childrens' book publisher who commissioned me to write three "how to bead" books for kids, and that was.
In 1995 my eyesight started doing funny things from so much close-up detailed work, and I stopped doing beadwork for profit. Now it's primarily what I do for Hanukkah and birthday gifts. I keep on beading in part because I love looking at colors, especially color combinations that somehow blend into one another to become more than what they are. I learned a new beadwork technique this morning - the spiral rope technique.
4. What makes a meal memorable for you?
The love and caring that someone puts into creating and presenting it is a big feature. I like meals that have a few different courses, meals where whole foods get to shine out with their own distinct flavor, meals where fruits and vegetables seem like small gemstones tumbled together.
5. Stuffed animal or rubber duckie?
Stuffed animal. Favorite: A large teddy bear that my friend Rich, may he rest in peace or at least someplace interesting, gave me about 5 years ago.
Thanks so much for these questions! I liked them lots...
wordweaverlynn...1. Where would you like to travel that you haven't been?
Ireland, Greece, and lots of back roads in the USA.
2. August, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Analyze This, The Dream Team, Klute, The Sopranos, Grosse Pointe Blank -- books, movies, and TV shows feature therapists. What do you think of the way various media present your profession (and your clients)?
Good questions. There are so many representations of psychology in the media, and they are so very varied. I do tend to gnash my teeth at some of the representations... Good Will Hunting, a lovely film otherwise, is an example of a movie which seems hell bent on presenting therapy ethical breaches as high drama.
No, therapists don't typically discuss their clients' progress in a restaurant, much less with someone who hasn't been granted disclosure privileges via a formal signed release of information from the client.
No, therapy sessions are not typically held out of doors - yes, it would be nice to, but you just never know which of the people in your life or your client's life will pop up to accidentally overhear something or ask awkward questions about today's little outing.
And no, therapists do not typically get so worked up from a client's well-placed dig that they shove the client into a bank of filing cabinets. That's called countertransference; we deal with it in our own therapy, and we keep our fists to ourselves.
Ok, let me put down the soap box now... :-D
3. You seem to love beads and colored gemstones. What sparked your interest and what feeds it?
I do! *bounce* I first learned to do beadwork at a nursing home where I was working in 1992-1993. I worked in the underfunded recreation department, and we'd make bingo prizes for the elderly residents out of big pony beads (which are about the size of a cocoa-mini-marshmallow, and come in a variety of plastic-looking colors). Not exactly dignified. Later that year I took a trip to San Francisco (I was living in NYC at the time), and wandered through the hippie trippy Haight, and came across an art supplies store. They had a display featuring "How to make friendship bracelets out of seed beads" books, and many colors of seed beads (which are about the size of a grain of cous cous). I taught myself how to make delicate daisy chains on the plane ride home, and I was hooked. The bingo prizes got a lot fancier after that.
Beadwork has always been a part of my life since then. For a while, between 1993 and 1995, I sold my pieces in consignment shops and at street fairs; that wasn't lucrative in itself, but my stuff got noticed by a childrens' book publisher who commissioned me to write three "how to bead" books for kids, and that was.
In 1995 my eyesight started doing funny things from so much close-up detailed work, and I stopped doing beadwork for profit. Now it's primarily what I do for Hanukkah and birthday gifts. I keep on beading in part because I love looking at colors, especially color combinations that somehow blend into one another to become more than what they are. I learned a new beadwork technique this morning - the spiral rope technique.
4. What makes a meal memorable for you?
The love and caring that someone puts into creating and presenting it is a big feature. I like meals that have a few different courses, meals where whole foods get to shine out with their own distinct flavor, meals where fruits and vegetables seem like small gemstones tumbled together.
5. Stuffed animal or rubber duckie?
Stuffed animal. Favorite: A large teddy bear that my friend Rich, may he rest in peace or at least someplace interesting, gave me about 5 years ago.
Thanks so much for these questions! I liked them lots...
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Date: 2003-06-05 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-06 03:25 am (UTC)I love beadwork and cross-stitch and color too. I'm particularly enchanted with overdyed silk floss, which changes color. In geometric designs and monograms, the effect can be extraordinary.
I'd be happy to be interviewed back, too.