Give three examples of the characteristics that make good therapist.

Answer: 1) empathy, 2) active listening, 3) not judgmental towards the client and material (dreams, fantasies, desires, thoughts) he brings to therapy.

Explanation: Therapist must be both motherly and fatherly, i. e. 1) nurturing, caring, empathizing, feeling, 2) stimulating, keeping a critical distance, being an adult in a relationship, he/she should not stimulate clients dependency on him/her but his/her independence. Both attitudes are crucial. Dosage is up to client. Therapist should not feel superior to client in any respect.

Empathy, Communication, and self awareness