Posted by Dinah on September 2, 2003, at 10:14:10
In reply to transference confusion, posted by crushedout on September 1, 2003, at 21:26:43
Originally posted by Crushedout 9/1/03
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> After seeing her for a year and a half, I finally confessed my romantic/parent-child feelings toward my therapist (for me, it’s really a mixture of both types) to her.
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> She was very accepting and made me feel very comfortable talking to her, but she told me some stuff that I found confusing. She said that she had noticed me flirting with her in earlier sessions and noticed herself "playing with" that, and that she "found [me] very beautiful." I really trust her and believe she would never allow anything physical or otherwise inappropriate to happen between us (although I want it to), but I can't understand what the therapeutic purpose might have been of telling me she found me beautiful. It made me feel really good, but it just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. Maybe that was a mistake on her part, or maybe not (since it made me feel good and safe with her, and sort of like my feelings were not so crazy).
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poster:Dinah
thread:256303
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