Posted by Dinah on October 8, 2008, at 22:21:06
In reply to Things my T shouldn't have disclosed to me., posted by lemonaide on October 8, 2008, at 11:01:16
Did you enlighten him as to why the girls wouldn't pick him? His conversation skills wouldn't appear to be useful for engaging women. Or clients.
Honestly some of those don't seem all that unusual to me. Context would matter a lot I suppose. My therapist and I have exchanged kidney stone stories on occasion, and given the anatomical differences, his are more enlivening. Not that he mentions his penis or anything. But it's hard to talk about kidney stones without evoking some imagery. And I can see him stop sometimes when he thinks he's about to say something that will disturb my puritanical sensibilities. Which is just as well, because however puritanical I may or may not be, my therapist is still my therapist. And while I by no means think he's perfect, I still need to maintain some illusions about him.
Mostly what I thought when I read those things is that he sounds rather crass and perhaps he's practicing under the influence. It's hard to see how any of those statements would be helpful to you.
But did he really have his childhood photos with him? Wow. That is quite unusual. I put together an album of my own pictures as a child when I was trying to get in touch with that part of me. And I have a number of pictures on my iPod because he told me he sees the physical body in front of him even though he sees the me inside as well. I started bringing in pictures for him to look at at the opening of the session so that he'd see me as I am, not this disgusting thing that's left of me. But he's never ever had any pictures of him as a child on hand. I can't quite picture why he would. Most people don't have childhood pictures of themselves handy to show anyone.
Did you say yes? I think I'd have said yes.
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