Posted by Cecilia on February 28, 2003, at 2:51:31
In reply to Re: Weird therapy session » Cecilia, posted by Tabitha on February 27, 2003, at 13:53:35
Tabitha, that used to bug me too, the way my therapist always acted like her interpretations of things were right, even about people (like my parents) that I`d known my whole life and she had never met! Of course, I had distortions and projections, but that didn`t mean she was always right. Well, that in a nutshell is why I failed therapy, I could never trust, it was always a power struggle. I go back and forth in my mind, loathing myself for not being able to do therapy right and then totally furious at her for allowing me to become attached like glue, assuring me that therapy would work when she most likely knew from the beginning that it was hopeless. Therapy is so incredibly, incredibly addictive. I read a book recently called "Folie a Deux" by Rosie Alexander about how obsessive one can become about one`s therapist. For me it was mostly a maternal transference, not an erotic one like the author of the book, but the result is the same; one`s therapist become`s one`s whole life. And it`s so hopeless because if you get better you`ll lose her and if you don`t get better you`ll lose her. Lose-lose for the client and win-win for the therapist-they get paid either way. Cecilia
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