Posted by Dinah on November 24, 2012, at 20:57:47
In reply to Re: Elevator progress, posted by Phillipa on November 21, 2012, at 9:08:13
It's funny, Phillipa. It's not really that we don't see them as people just like us. I was always aware of my therapist as a person with his own struggles and strengths. No different than I was really. Maybe different strengths and weaknesses.
It's not a question of who they are. It's a question of what the relationship is. I always used a quote from Harry Potter to describe it.
"A jet of green light issued from Voldemorts wand just as a jet of red light blasted from Harrys they met in midair and suddenly Harrys wand was vibrating as though an electric charge were surging through it; his hand seized up around it; he couldnt have released it if hed wanted to and a narrow beam of light connected the two wands, neither red nor green, but bright, deep gold."
"The golden thread connecting Harry and Voldemort splintered; though the wands remained connected, a thousand more beams arced high over Harry and Voldemort, crisscrossing all around them, until they were enclosed in a golden, dome-shaped web, a cage of light..."
There is a power in the space between and around a client and a therapist in some types of therapeutic relationships. Their energies and our energies meet, and create something unique.
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