Posted by orchid on November 15, 2005, at 9:17:24
I happened to get some inside information from a male psychiatrist who does extensive therapy. (not first hand but second hand info).
Apparently he said that attachment is a big issue to him. He said that once a patient comes to therapy with him, they are always on the lookout for him for their lifetime. And he tries his best to avoid them. And that they never want to terminate, and he forces them to cut off. What kind of person will knowingly put their patients through so much of torture?
He said therapy is at best like doing a half operation and asking the patient to get off the operation table in mid-operation, just as soon as the doctor is convinced the patient would atleast survive. They never wait for the operation to be fully done or the wound to heal fully. But he said that is a fact of life.
I was little taken aback by the statement. If they know they are going to leave in mid-operation, why even do it? They know the pain an unfinished operation will cause a patient and yet they go into it knowingly? How cruel? And how can they just dismiss it as "Oh it is not my fault, that is just the way it is".
For all this, he is a very highly qualified psychiatrist and he has lots of years of therapy experience, and is apprently one of the most popular Drs in his society. It is not that he is uncapable.
Any input? So far I thought that they feel bad atleast that they sometime could not help the patient feeling bad. But apparently, they don't even feel that. And they do it fully knowingly.
What kind of person will knowingly put a person through so much of pain?
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