Posted by Dinah on October 8, 2008, at 22:34:14
In reply to I irritated my T in session, now I'm acting out..., posted by backseatdriver on October 8, 2008, at 22:12:52
Darn. I remember reading about this. Maybe in one of Kottler's books?
Apparently it is advised that therapists avoid situations where their reactions to a client's work might have a bad effect on the therapeutic relationship. So that reading a poem that a client wrote to express her feelings about her father would be part of therapy and be fine because the focus would be about her feelings, not her writing abilities, but to read a book of poetry might place the therapist in a potentially difficult situation.
At least I think that was it. It's been a while since I read it. Perhaps he was taught that or read that at some point, and is following that guideline with all his clients.
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