Relapse Following Successful Stuttering Therapy: The Problem of Choice

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person who will stutter sometimes identity

From: Ari(Israel)geashono@gmail.com
Date: 05 Oct 2012
Time: 05:07:04 -0500
Remote Name: 85.250.148.74

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Hey again,I didn't know that you are a person who stutter.I personally tried for years to speak fluently by FS tools. The result was very fluent speech in some situations,but in other situation i couldn't talk at all. It took me a long time to understand that i need to face my real stuttering.You see,FS and other fluency methods give you the illusion that you are not a stutterer and then when you feel the fear and the stuttering you feel like a failure,and the therapists also tell you that if you would practice more... if you would use your tools.... The true was,that i needed to learn how to stutter,i needed to feel what i am doing when I stutter,I needed to stop biting myself everytime i feel I lost my fluency.This is not easy,cause even if you accept your stuttering,you prefer to talk fluently,and I needed to give up my fluency. So from my experience,I think that the problem of relapse is not adopting the "fluency identity",but adopting the "person who will stutter sometimes " just because he is a stutterer with a long history of stuttering. David Williams (that participated in the past conferences) told what he heard from Joseph Sheehan and I quote"I asked Joe a year or so ago what he thought future trends would be in therapy. He said he thought the pendulum will swing back toward the counseling and psychotherapeutic approach once the contemporary enthusiasm for programmed behavior modification techniques has faded. Joe believed that any mechanistic 'fluency shaping' procedures, while frequently producing immediate increases in apparent fluency, are basically suppressive in nature and are doomed to ultimate failure in the absence of thorough attitudinal change by the stutterer. Any remaining vestiges of fear of stuttering and consequent avoidance drives are, as Joe eloquently expressed in a 1982 presentation at Northern Illinois University, an "invitation to relapse.""


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