Posted by Pfinstegg on April 4, 2004, at 23:44:01
In reply to Re: who has hugged there T's? or anything else?, posted by gardenergirl on April 4, 2004, at 23:30:45
With the analyst I have, it would never happen. There's so much talk about all kinds of touching in my sessions- memories of abusive touching, longings for safe, loving touching, etc., that it just wouldn't be a good idea if it actually happened- the transference is so complicated!
One very nice thing that does happen is a handshake when we have a break- like for a vacation or trip by one of us, Then we both sort of step out of the transference and have a mutual moment of recognition that as adults we like one another- it helps a lot with the breaks in therapy, which I find pretty hard.
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