Posted by susan47 on May 23, 2006, at 21:51:19
In reply to Re: Abrupt termination and quitting is not the answer, posted by Larry Hoover on May 23, 2006, at 8:24:58
SO, I went completely stupidly insane and nuts but I don't think that's necessarily my therapist's (at-the-time) fault ...
I went nuts. I was completely destroyed and I don't even know why. I look at it now and I know that he brought some serious issues to the surface in many talks we had initially .. you have to understand that one hour from the therapist's seat may be many years' time from the client's seat. I mean to say that in that fifty minutes, hour or hour-and-ten or perhaps -twenty, which I know happens and did happen .. I tried to hard, near the middle and end, to keep it down to one hour strictly, and sometimes he was okay with that but other times he deliberately, I think, slowed down things or seemed unconcerned about the time, which maybe he was trying to make me feel comfortable but maybe it was just making me feel really UNcomfortable, because God damn it I was ALREADY attracted to him, thank you very much, he knew it because I'd told him so, and it wasn't making him stricter .. not at first .. not until I made a real pain-in-the you-know-what of myself, and he was convinced to have had enough ..
Of course, all of this is just my own experience. I know that. All of it. And I think human nature is such, and society, especially today, has so many rules and regulations and strict laws we need to live by so that we remain civilized, you know .. that no man would ever admit to this. Not willingly, and certainly against all advice. So .. that is what makes the profession schizo.
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