Posted by pegasus on January 12, 2012, at 8:57:53
In reply to Re: What you pay for » pegasus, posted by Dinah on January 11, 2012, at 16:34:06
Yes. It's this bit:
. . . in order to wiggle out of any vulnerability, attempts to hang onto their sense of power and privilege by insisting that the therapeutic fee makes therapy the equivalent of prostitution . . .
That gets me. Isn't seeing the similarity between therapy and prostitution (versus the spontaneous, organic caring relationship we all crave) putting your finger right on the heartbeat of that vulnerability? If I was willing to just take the apparent caring at face value, that might feel a lot more secure.
Plus, there's the judgmental tone. I don't like that.
But, maybe it's helpful to think that I am able to reciprocate to my T in the form of money, when I can't give him anything else of value. So, when I can't believe in his caring, I can still feel like it's OK to expose him to the dirty underbelly of my psyche week after week.
I think I'm actually glad to have read this post, even if I think she could frame it all a bit more compassionately. I hate to think what her clients go through, reading this. And you know they do.
Peg
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