Posted by Toph on March 11, 2005, at 8:49:17
In reply to Re: Private Communication, posted by Dr. Bob on March 11, 2005, at 2:53:20
> ...What sorts of guidelines are you wondering about?
>
A couple things come to mind that prompt me to ask. On PBP I've noticed with interest that some therapies include the T calling the patient or going for walks together. I'm unaccustomed to such permeable boundaries in therapy. Not that you are our therapist here, but there is a group treatment dynamic on PB. I have been in group therapy before in a Day Hospital following an inpatient hospitalization. It would have been outside the norm for one of the facilitators to call a member privately (barring some emergency). When my first marriage was in trouble I convinced my wife to go with me to marriage counseling. The therapist began seeing my wife individually concurrently with our couples sessions. Then I discovered that my wife was having an affair and I was incensed that the therapist held a secret from me that I thought was a complete violation of our trust. The therapy was destroyed along with the merriage. So, I guess I'm a little sensitive to any ex parte conversations outside the public forum. That's all.Toph
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