Posted by cricket on August 17, 2005, at 11:31:21
In reply to Re: Terrible Session » cricket, posted by Dinah on August 17, 2005, at 9:08:37
That's a good idea. I think it all is a misunderstanding.
He did look like a bit of a mess yesterday and I actually thought the dream might cheer him up. Of course I can't actually say, "you looked like you were crying your eyes out."
Sometimes I do hate the boundaries of the therapy relationship. Wouldn't it be so much better if he could just say, "Listen I really had a terrible morning and your dream really pushed my buttons about my own stiff upper class ways (or whatever it was) and I'm sorry and I'm glad to hear that you don't think I'm stupid."
But my therapist never will. He'll go on about attachment theory and negative transference and how this all fits in perfectly (blah, blah, blah). Is this how therapy always is? Or is it my very intensity (as Alex was saying) causing him to layer on the self-protective armor?
I think I am his first appointment of the week. I always wondered if that is deliberate. Get the worst over with first kind of thing.
Not sure why I want to keep on analysing this but maybe there was something to our session that gets to the heart of a lot of our problems working together
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