Posted by fallsfall on March 24, 2004, at 7:45:50
In reply to Therapist Attachment - Help, posted by lonelygirl on March 22, 2004, at 18:52:16
I think that you would learn a lot if you could talk to him about how much attachment you feel, and how it scares you. It sounds like you haven't felt many attachments in your life, so it would be natural for this to feel confusing and scary. Trying to manipulate him or yourself into being angry to lessen the attachment is probably avoiding the work that you should be doing in therapy. Both of you know that therapy will end in May. I think that between now and then if you could explore with him how you do feel (and what you believe he thinks of you), and how to go through the termination phase so that you can end on a positive note, that would be incredibly important. This therapy is the one place where you can really talk about how you are feeling, and get some real feedback as well. I'm hoping you can use this time to learn about how attachments can help and can hurt and how to handle goodbyes. It is such important stuff.
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