Posted by pegasus on February 23, 2004, at 14:55:49
In reply to Erica Schmidt - termination, posted by shortelise on February 23, 2004, at 13:15:19
Good topic! I'd also be interested to hear what Ms. Schmidt things about terminations other than gradual agreed upon endings.
Obviously, I'm motivated by my recent experience of a T moving away. It felt like such a struggle, where I wasn't ready, wasn't done. And he wanted it to be ok for him to leave, so he didn't hear a lot of it. At one point he said, maybe with a little exasperation, "This is *life*".
My new T says that therapy isn't supposed to end the way that one did, and that even if he's a good guy who did the best thing he could, it was still wrong for me that it ended that way.
So, I guess my question is, is therapy really just life, and we should expect the unexpected because our Ts have lives too? Or is it something we should be able to count on? It seems constructed to be the latter, while realistically it ends up being the former.
- p
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