Posted by pegasus on October 19, 2007, at 8:58:26
In reply to another bad termination, posted by pegasus on October 7, 2007, at 21:49:47
For those of you who were following the story of my friend, who is a T, wanting to terminate a client with romantic transference . . . it has a happy ending. The T decided to talk about needing to transfer before actually doing it (the original plan), and explain that if they can't find a way to do work that is therapeutic, as opposed to fighting over whether to talk about the details of the clients' fantasies about the T, then the T will have to transfer the client to another T.
The client got it, and they talked about how the client has been resisting real therapeutic work, etc. And the client understands that if those fantasies take over the sessions again, that they should talk about why they come up, what purpose they serve, etc. Otherwise, they'll talk about transfering.
So, it's all on the table, and they're back to doing good work together.
Yay!
peg
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