Posted by baseball55 on November 23, 2012, at 19:14:08
In reply to What do you think?, posted by Twinleaf on November 23, 2012, at 11:46:51
I would say my p-doc thinks the same way. In my case though, I already had a semi-good marriage and a very warm, close and loving relationship with my daughter. But my deeper issues were starting to negatively impact those relationships and I had no other relatioships -- no friends, no ties to siblings. When I started therapy, my p-doc talked about people needing a "corrective emotional experience." He said I had already had this, to some degree with my husband and daughter but that others without close relationships would need to experience that with him.
I think most therapists today subscribe to the idea that therapy is a corrective emotional experience, whereby the therapist becomes a "good-enough parent" for people whose own parents were not good enough.
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