Posted by Fallen4myT on March 24, 2004, at 11:25:44
In reply to Re: Therapist Attachment - Help » Fallen4myT, posted by lonelygirl on March 23, 2004, at 15:48:49
Hey Lonelygirl I am just catching up and saw this..I know about the books but please borrow..somehow the one I did suggest...(I need to learn to link them ugh lol( ands a GREAT book and just because it doesnt always mention client T relationships does not make it applicable to your situation..trust me...its a good read and VERY helpful ...Now on the T pic...it's not odd at all and rather sweet you ask..I wish I could share it BUT I would feel like I was betraying him somehow and am not comfortable doing that. I guess I feel he deserves his privacy or something.
Still, I am hoping busy or not YOUR T will offer you some of those opions on enail and phone..he MAY surprise you :)
> Ah, sorry -- I didn't mean to imply that you recommended the other two books. I was just mentioning that I was already reading a couple of books... I am about halfway through "In Session". It's pretty good, and I keep thinking, "Exactly!!!" The only problem (though maybe she will get to this in the second half) is that it just makes me even more frustrated! There are all these catch-22s.
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> Anyway, I was asking about "Attachments" because I wanted to know how worthwhile it would be for me, and if it's really applicable to my situation. I can always buy it from Amazon.com, but I don't usually like to buy books (if I'm only going to read it once or twice anyway, it's a much better deal to check it out from the library), so I wanted to make sure it's good before I commit to it. "Distancing" looked really good from what I saw on the Amazon.com web site, but I was pretty disappointed in it... Good thing I got it at the library instead of wasting $50 on it.
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> I highly doubt he would be willing to do phone sessions or e-mail. He is at the university health center, so he doesn't have that much control. He gets a certain number of clients assigned to him, and his schedule is determined to a large extent by the health center, not him. He also doesn't collect directly from the clients; he just gets a salary. Also, the health center says, "it is [our] policy not to use E-mail for communication of any kind with clients." So I am not sure if he would even be ALLOWED to do that (although that may not be completely true, because he mentioned that he gets a lot of e-mail). Finally, when I graduate in May, I will no longer be eligible to use the health center because I am not a student.
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> So, do you have an appointment today? Good luck... I know this is a weird request, and I hope you're not mad that I ask, but I was wondering if you would mind sending me a pic of your therapist... For some reason, I just wonder what he looks like. But I understand if you don't want to do that.
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