Posted by Lonely on December 30, 2004, at 1:24:33
In reply to how did you define your therapy goals?, posted by ghost on December 26, 2004, at 17:58:44
That goal thing just drives me crazy. But, usually it's expressed as "what do you want to work on?" My smart-alec side wants to respond with something like "well, maybe we could start with the floor and then the windows?" (Like out of the movie "Annie" when she goes to Daddy Warbuck's mansion and they ask her what she would like to do first) It would really help if they phrased it more kindly with interest and compassion sort've more like prefacing things with "no doubt you're feeling some pain some where in your life and you'd like some help with it?" At least then I'd feel more like they care. As it is, I just feel like it's sort've by rote.
One therapist, an insecure psychologist, even went so far as to write out a sort of contract which she thought I would be delighted to sign. I not only did not sign it, I took it apart, gleefully, and figuratively speaking shoved it back in her chubby face (resplendent with female pattern baldness).
I guess it's the insensitivity that really bothors me and therapists are rife with it. Has anybody ever really clobbered (totally in the figurative sense) these boar type therapists when they do this?
poster:Lonely
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