Posted by sassyfrancesca on April 7, 2009, at 9:15:13
In reply to Re: Don't You Think This is WEIRD?! » sassyfrancesca, posted by Dinah on April 7, 2009, at 8:10:38
> I do think dropping your coat to the floor was not professional.
Absolutely.
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> Your therapist does occasionally redraw the lines. Telling you no more food in session or no more music or no sessions on Sunday. We still have music, candles, something to drink. If I'm remembering correctly?
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> 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 callActually, he surprised me one night. While I was sitting there, he made a call to a client.
or go to the restroom or something... He should have said so with words. That would be the adult, professional, thing to do.
Exactly.
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> Perhaps you could ask him why he did it?I plan to, and I plan to tell him how rude, disrespectful, childish and arrogant it was. He knows me, and knows I speak up when not happy with something he has said or done.
Not that it excuses dropping your coat to the floor of course.
I cannot believe he would do that to anyone else!
Or the remark about being a gentleman. Which is also a bit odd really.I thought it odd, also.
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.
He helps me off with the coat and on, when we leave.
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> But again, whenever my therapist does something I consider odd, I usually bring it up with him. If not immediately then eventually.So do I. Sometimes I don't bring it up right away; I need time to process it, etc....but he hears about it eventually!
Hugs, Sassy
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