Posted by Tamar on June 26, 2005, at 15:24:15
In reply to T comment about Babble, posted by gardenergirl on June 25, 2005, at 23:39:45
Hmmm... I could perhaps understand his point better if you were doing traditional psychoanalysis. But the thing about once-a-week therapy is that we have to be able to make it through 167 long hours from the end of one appointment to the beginning of the next. That's a lot of taking it one hour at a time when we're feeling like sh*t.
If strong feelings arise in therapy, ideally they could be dealt with immediately. But considering the constraints of the therapeutic frame (the need to finish in 50 minutes etc), it's not always possible.
I don't think anything could have lessened my transference when I was in therapy. It's been more than three months since I terminated and I'm still transferenced up to the eyeballs.
I tend to think of Babble as a locus of support rather than actual therapy. It can be very therapeutic! But since we're not trying to be black slates with each other it's not quite the same thing as therapy.
I think he has a point, to a small extent. And maybe it's useful to think about it. But I wonder if his perspective is based on theoretical principles that belong properly to psychoanalysis and can't necessarily be rigidly applied in psychotherapy...
Just my two cents.
Tamar
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