Posted by Dinah on January 23, 2007, at 12:35:33
In reply to Re: Sudden insane thought » Dinah, posted by Daisym on January 23, 2007, at 12:05:00
Oooh. Just wanted to add something really nice he said yesterday.
I was telling him that he's more congruent now. That he used to say and act one thing, but I'd pick up other things I could feel from him. But that now when I feel he's angry, he'll say he's angry. And if I feel he's bored, he'll say he's tired or distracted but that it isn't at all my fault (because he's not rude enough to say he's bored). In other words, what he says now matches what I pick up from him, and the rare times it doesn't he'll admit that he is feeling something else.
I told him with a grin that that's probably just because he knows I'll know if he's not honest with me about what he's feeling. And he said he thought it was because he had become more mature as a therapist. I was sort of disappointed and said that I'd hoped it was because of the hard work we'd put in to build a relationship, and he answered with another warm smile that the hard work we'd put in were a large part of what helped him mature as a therapist.
Wasn't that sweet?
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