How Should Practitioners Cope with “Difficult” Patients?

For example, this could include a patient who is always trying to control or dominate the practitioner and the process regardless of the stated or agreed objective of treatment.

Answer by Dr. Hammer

The following, taken from Chapter 6 of my book, Dragon Rises—Red Bird Flies,³ seems relevant here:

Except in instances of “possession” (control by external forces), human beings strive to contact others within a context of positive emotion.

Human experience may not always allow the positive emotions to flourish; in many circumstances, negative or hostile contact may be all that is possible and, paradoxically, may be life-sustaining. If life requires this as an enduring condition, negativity becomes a way of life.

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