Posted by Dinah on February 13, 2013, at 10:05:22
In reply to Re: Post-session clingy saddish feelings » sigismund, posted by sleepygirl2 on February 10, 2013, at 10:04:44
> My t said that one way for a child to surely not separate is to reject them. And I am most preoccupied with my t and Pdoc when I'm not sure they're there.
I really like that your therapist gets that. It's definitely been true for me. The frame of the therapeutic relationship itself leads to a lot of the very strong feelings, IMO. It both encourages intimacy and has built in withholding and limits.
I suppose in one style of therapy that intensity is part of what leads to understanding and change. But I think other types of therapy have far too little training in it.
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