Word: cures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reverse, i.e., the masking of disturbance by adolescence the goal of all interventions with adolescents, then should be to strengthen and confirm them in their development. Some adolescents may need special help, but the purpose of this help should not be to "cure" them of their "illness" (much less of their adolescence); rather it should be to restore to the adolescent his capacity to proceed in his growth without special help. Too much help can be enfeebling, just as too much understanding without respect can be undermining. Even today, much of what passes for "counseling" of adolescents ends up short...
This is not necessarily true. Cases may be incurable--in fact I don't think we cure anybody, we get them well enough to manage in the world. Nevertheless, you struggle through that, and the group begins to need support from the advisor and the day leader. Up comes exams about this time or a few weeks later; there is an interruption, and unless the case-aides keep contact with their patients, you find that the patients do reject the case-aides...
...they've force dit not to want them around, either. The case-aide must mediate between the patient and the community and get them to accept each other more, without doing fancy intra-psychic work--which only the patient can really do. In therapy you don't cure patients. You open doors and try to let the patient go through if he wants...
...also the child of insecurity in the role: there must be some answer to this case, and it must be hidden in the record. Father must have the answer. This leads to a whole series of unspoken assumptions that something has been denied. The doctors are deliberately not curing this person. The answer is somewhere in the record. They won't let me see the record. Therefore they don't want to cure this person...
...patient's body responded by rejecting both the kidney and the cancer. Subsequently, after the drugs had been recontinued to allow a new operation, the cancer failed to reappear, indicating a complete cure...