Posted by Dinah on June 17, 2004, at 8:23:41
In reply to Re: Rock vs Hard Place » tabitha, posted by Dinah on June 17, 2004, at 8:09:43
"But it could be awfully lonely to *only* want a therapeutic relationship in your life."
What I meant was to compare other relationships to your therapeutic one, and find them lacking.
I think maybe I get a really good view of this because after nine years, I think my therapist forgets sometimes and acts like himself. I know he never yelled at me and got as impatient in the first five or so years of therapy, or I'd have left him in a flash. Now he does act like his real self enough times, and I see him almost visibly recollect himself, and remind himself that he's doing his job as a therapist and put his therapist hat back on, that I really get a good look at the fact that having a friendship with my therapist wouldn't be anywhere near as good as having a therapeutic relationship with him. That helps me put my other relationships in perspective.
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