Posted by backseatdriver on August 24, 2009, at 6:49:10
In reply to Re: Has anyone ever gotten any help from a T like this, posted by emmanuel98 on August 23, 2009, at 19:32:07
I think a therapist can be psychodynamic in a lot of ways. Mostly I've worked with the warm(ish) humanistic types. The silent type can veer closely to the "silent treatment." If you've suffered from this in childhood at the hands of trusted others, a very quiet therapist may very well trigger you. To compound the problem, once triggered they are unlikely to help because doing so would violate their therapeutic principles. In that case, all you'd learn is how much suffering they can tolerate being witness to.
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