Posted by Dinah on May 30, 2005, at 10:09:48
In reply to Re: Chapter 3.The Therapist's Power, posted by pegasus on May 29, 2005, at 21:08:57
You aren't going to get me to disagree with that. There is a power imbalance, and those therapists who don't recognize it are dangerous. Not as dangerous as those who abuse it. But dangerous.
> I've taken classes in a counseling psych program, and in one counseling techniques class the instructor told us that the way you deal with the therapist's greater power (as the therapist) is to not identify with it. She said that that eliminates the power imbalance. Excuse me? As if it's only what's in the therapist's head that counts.
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Sadly that sounds not untypical for a lot of therapy issues. I always tell my therapist he needs to read someplace like this board to find out what's really happening in therapy, to a fair size number of clients. He's very naive sometimes. And I think that's a reflection on the training programs.
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