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Posted by friesandcoke on May 2, 2008, at 19:22:33
Gosh, I went because I thought I was depressed (which I was) and I felt I needed direction to becoming more "normal". I went through a huge crisis and was not acting or living right. But stayed on for a long time because I liked the therapist. And she was helping me with things I didn't even go there for initially. I mean really, what is the reason for therapy? Do you have to have a serious problem? Some people stay in therapy for years. Like me. What keeps people in therapy? I stayed because the relationship was one I needed. But how sad I have to pay someone to care about me.
Posted by backseatdriver on May 6, 2008, at 11:05:15
In reply to What is the whole point of therapy?, posted by friesandcoke on May 2, 2008, at 19:22:33
Maybe another way to think of it would be, by seeing your therapist, you're caring for yourself. She is there, too, helping you to do this, because we can't do it alone.
I sometimes think, my therapist cares about me, over and above the payment issue. What I pay him for is something different: his time, and his openness.
By sitting there with me for an hour and responding to what I say, he gives me limited, indirect, but still useful access to his inner life, which during the therapy "hour" he puts in the service of clarifying my communications to myself, to others, and to him.
But his caring for me, that's over and above. I don't doubt that he does care. But that's not what I feel I am paying him for.
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