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There are certain special kinds of involved, reciprocally responsive, meetings with others which, when they occur, can give rise to special and distinctive feelings in us, feelings which can ‘tell’ us something about the unique nature of an other’s ‘inner world’, and which can thus shape our responses to them in ways that matter to them. In a moment, below, we would like to try to describe the special nature of such meetings or engagements, and also, to spend some time outlining some of the prior attitudes and expectations that can prevent such engaged meetings from ever taking place. For it seems to us that certain orientations—often to do with demands made on us by our training as professionals—can lead us to impose already existing demands and requirements on all our meetings, externally,and it is just these external impositions that can prevent these special kinds of involvement from ever emerging.
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Katz, A.M., Shotter, J., Seikkula, J. (2004). Acknowledging the Otherness of the Other. In: Strong, T., Paré, D. (eds) Furthering Talk. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8975-8_3
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