Posted by Racer on November 23, 2007, at 23:58:47
In reply to Re: What do Ts write about in your file?, posted by antigua3 on November 23, 2007, at 6:47:58
Today, I told my T about this thread, and asked her about her notes. We talked about it a little, and then she showed me a page of notes from a few weeks ago.
She said that, way back when she first started her practice, she took too many notes -- and learned that when her records were subpoenaed for a custody case. Now she takes much shorter notes as a result. Her memory is notoriously bad, it's a joke with her clients at this point, and she never takes notes during sessions, so I don't expect her to remember most details of what we talk about. She remembers the oddest things, sometimes, and that can be inconvenient. (Of course, she also remembers quite salient things -- she mentioned the other day that she remembered me saying that if I couldn't get pregnant, at least I could work on losing some of the weight I've gained. She brought that up the other day, after asking how much I was eating -- a subject we actually never talk about.) After talking about them a little, she handed over a page of notes from a couple of weeks ago, right before and during my hospitalization. There were several days worth of notes, handwritten, and had various brief comments. I wish now I'd asked to see some notes that weren't from that period, to see what "normal" notes looked like, but at least I have a pretty good idea now of what's in my file.
The other thing that would help would be legible handwriting...
It helps that I trust her. Way back, we talked about it, and I said that I probably would want to read my whole file at some point. She said that we would talk about it, and that she'd want to do it in session, but that if I really wanted to, we would do that. I found that reassuring.
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