Posted by Penny on July 13, 2003, at 8:37:26
In reply to Re: Male therapist, posted by cerodwen on July 12, 2003, at 2:46:07
> how do you know things like your therapist went to weight watchers? i've never had a therapist tell me anything personal? I asked mine last visit where he was going on vacation and I felt really invasive doing it.
She tells me things. Like she told me a story about when she was in girl scouts, and I know she's an only child and divorced and has one (adult) child, and she has cats, who sleep with her, and she's an avid birdwatcher and she reads a lot and she used to be on Weight Watchers and she wears a pedometer she got there and so on. She shares things with me, which I really like. It makes her more of a real person. I was talking to my psychiatrist about it, about how the male therapist I saw had a pic of him and his wife in his office, which I thought kind of odd, and my pdoc said that, of course, there are different kinds of therapies and while some therapists have more of a psychoanalytic approach, where they are supposed to be a 'blank slate', others don't feel the need - just a different approach. My old therapist was more of a blank slate, though no where near entirely, but my current therapist I know much more about. I know a lot about my pdoc too. I know about his family and his pets and some about his family growing up. It's cool, IMO. All about what you're comfortable with.
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