Posted by twinleaf on April 29, 2008, at 17:16:19
In reply to a word of appreciation... » Dr. Bob, posted by twinleaf on April 28, 2008, at 18:33:14
If I hadn't seen it here, I would have had a hard time believing how intense various posters' tranferences are to you! I believe they are grounded in reality, but after that they just take off in whatever direction a particular poster needs them to. And unlike ordinary face-to-face therapy sessions, there is no "real you" to help us all distinguish between what is real and what is created by our own internal needs, wishes and fears. There's essentially no limit on what babblers can suppose and imagine about you. And you are unusually limited in how you can handle these situations (compared to a therapist who is physically with a client in the same room)
That might be a good research topic-how cyber-transferences differ from real-life ones!
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