Posted by Rzip on February 10, 2001, at 13:57:24
In reply to Re: Free associating, and blanking out, posted by allisonm on February 10, 2001, at 12:52:14
> His face sometimes changes and looks different to me from week to week than what I anticipate (or my idea of what he looks like gets distorted between visits, is probably more accurate).
I know exactly what you mean. I used to think that my old therapist was threatening and mean between visits. Of course, she wasn't in reality. She was just very straightforward and that scared me. Clients do have a tendency to identify their therapist with someone personal in their life, don't they? I wonder how the therapist deal with all the misplaced negative projection. Maybe they think, thank goodness, I get paid for this abuse? But then, after a while, the therapist will get burnouts. Hmm...how do a therapist last in the professional for so long?
- Rzip
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