Posted by Dinah on June 28, 2005, at 16:57:25
In reply to How would you react to termination **trigger**, posted by pinkeye on June 28, 2005, at 14:50:35
I don't want to lessen the impact of what your therapist did. It hurt, and it hurts, and he could have been way more sensitive.
But I wonder if there was a bit of a communication problem. He had seen you face to face for a while, then answered your emails for a while after that. Is it possible that he considered that therapy had ended at the end of the face to face portion? And that the year or so of emails after that was the termination phase? He wasn't being paid for his email communications. And he did taper off in his replies to you over time.
I'm not saying he handled the very end well. He didn't. He should have given you time to prepare.
But perhaps in his mind, the actual therapy had terminated some time previously.
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