Posted by gazo on May 28, 2007, at 17:45:06
In reply to Re: here you go... the ethics thread, posted by DAisym on May 28, 2007, at 16:14:06
i have been pondering this Daisy. My pdoc has some psychotherapy training, as i assume most of them do, but he doesn't practice as a therapist so he is limited that way i feel. His ideas seem rigid and antiquated to me. He knows i had an infatuation with my old T and he seemed to think that was problematic had i continued. But now my new T doesn't think so at all, he was the first to say that he felt it could have been a very productive thing to explore... and i agree. As attached as i was i was keen to understand it's deeper meanings and dissect it... just never had the chance. i feel it could have unraveled quite a lot about myself.
i think that is why therapy has to be individualized based on the abilities and limitations of *both* client and therapist. Some patients couldn't handle such attachment, and neither could some therapists... others are not capable of deeper self awareness needed.
All the current literature espouses the harmful and deep damage done to clients by sexual contact... and it's easy to understand how that is. But, what i find more interesting is the virtual irradication from the archives of writings from a while ago which explored otherwise. John Mcartney and James Martin (i think this is the right name) both thought sexual contact was therapeutic. Martin, if i have that name right, wrote "The Love Treatment" and Mcartney sought authorization from clients and families for sexual treatment. The weird thing is that these writings are just plain gone... at least everywhere i have looked... i did find an old copy of the book online somewhere but not in any library i have tried, even through interlibrary loan... and certainly not in medical libraries. The articles regarding what Mcartney called "overt transference" are not there either. Weird. i mean, right or wrong, should the information still be available?
If anyone is able to find access to that article and could bmail me the text i'd be very happy. i just finished reading Exploitation in Psychotherapy and i am very interested. Mostly because i am exporing that transference i felt myself. i am told it is transference, and that acting on it would have damaged me.. and i want to learn about that as well as my own roots of the thoughts/feelings.
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