Posted by Dinah on April 7, 2009, at 8:10:38
In reply to Don't You Think This is WEIRD?!, posted by sassyfrancesca on April 6, 2009, at 10:12:07
I do think dropping your coat to the floor was not professional.
Your therapist does occasionally redraw the lines. Telling you no more food in session or no more music or no sessions on Sunday. If I'm remembering correctly?
If he was trying to redraw the line so that when your session was over he would like you to leave rather than sit while he makes notes... Or if that day he had some reason that he would prefer that you not wait while he wrote up his notes because he needed to make a phone call or go to the restroom or something... He should have said so with words. That would be the adult, professional, thing to do.
Perhaps you could ask him why he did it? Not that it excuses dropping your coat to the floor of course. Or the remark about being a gentleman. Which is also a bit odd really. My therapist is, I'm sure, a gentleman. But he doesn't feel the need to help me gather my things as I left, and I can't imagine him helping me on with my coat.
But again, whenever my therapist does something I consider odd, I usually bring it up with him. If not immediately then eventually.
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