Posted by fallsfall on October 11, 2003, at 0:43:00
In reply to Re: Spoke to my therapist today » Dinah, posted by Tabitha on October 10, 2003, at 21:54:00
Wow, I missed this whole discussion. What great articles etc. The description for the video is particularly good.
I think this thread contains good agreement. If the therapist is competent, then the client should talk about all of her feelings towards the therapist. What a relief. I don't think I could survive a therapy session where I had to decide if I could or couldn't talk about something. It is hard enough to decide if I WANT to talk about something.
My old therapist does her supervision in a group. She has brought my case to her group twice (that I know of). Particularly the second time, it made me feel like her "problem child". I was flattered that she was thinking about me so much, but certainly didn't want her to be unhappy or mad about me.
These are great discussions.
Dinah, thank you for your passion on this subject. Your concern that other posters will get the wrong idea and be hurt in therapy, or not get out of therapy what they could is so wonderful. It can be especially hard to step back in these cases and know that we can only do what we can do, and that we won't be able to convince all of the people all of the time, but that the world will still go on. Dinah, you have done a superb job of trying to point our corner of the world in the right direction. Thanks.
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