Posted by Alan on December 4, 2002, at 22:23:29
In reply to Re: crush on therapist - namesake » namesake, posted by Eddie Sylvano on December 4, 2002, at 16:27:19
Believe me when I tell you from experience that you don't want to go there. Talk about your feelings of transference with ANOTHER unbiased therapist.
But if you want to invite trouble, that's your business. My therapist showed inordinate interest in me too and it took me 6 years to get over it in many therapy sessions with someone else BECAUSE issues of transference were not dealt with with the original crush properly. She just said go talk to your therapist about it (She was my psychopharmacologist).
There are no absolutes but acting out a crush with a therapist is about as close as one gets to self-destruction. TALKING about that crush and figuring why you are experiencing the crush is the issue. Everything else is just chatter and potentially catastrophic. That's why the psychological associations have very strict codes about such matters and it is encouraged to talk through this sticking point in a professional manner.
I even suspected that my crush was flirting to keep me going to her for pharm treatment because she was new to the practice...that's how much paranoia it can breed...
Alan
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