Posted by Dinah on December 23, 2004, at 7:51:53
In reply to Re: Bringing PB into therapy, posted by Toph on December 22, 2004, at 9:50:03
Well, you know transference and projection are another couple of those psych terms that I consider the trigonometry of psych. I was fabulous at algebra, but could never quite grasp trig.
I think he meant negative in that I read bad things into circumstances here that weren't necessarily grounded in reality and that upset me excessively. I'm not sure how much they were grounded in my past experiences, but I suppose so since they were probably based on the way I view the world. It got a heck of a lot better over time, and it's been a while since he put me on Babble prohibition. It just took some getting used to.
My biggest remaining transference issue on Babble probably has to do with Dr. Bob. :) He's so enigmatic that it's easy to fill in the blanks with our own ideas about authority figures. Some people fill in the blanks with highly negative things and come up with conclusions that I don't think are warranted given the weight of evidence during Dr. Bob's sponsoring of Babble. Others, like me, fill in the blanks with highly positive fatherlike images that may be equally unwarranted. :) Then whenever I think Dr. Bob lets me down by not being as smart or as sensitive as I think he is, I get overly angry.
My therapist reveals himself more than Dr. Bob, so the problems don't crop up as much with him. I know who my therapist is. Dr. Bob could probably solve a fair number of the problems he has with posters by also revealing more. But I suppose that could open a new set of problems.
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