Posted by Marie1 on July 22, 2001, at 18:34:50
In reply to Re: Therapist problems » Marie1, posted by judy1 on July 21, 2001, at 13:22:25
Judy,
I'm so sorry that happened to you. Of course I've heard of pdocs taking advantage of patients, but thought (hoped?) they were a very rare minority. It's certainly easy to understand how that can happen (I'm reading the part about how much power therapists can have over their patients). But what I can't imagine is how one deals with that trauma. From that source. Especially having had to deal with it in the past as well. How can you ever trust again?Marie
> Hi Marie,
> I think I mentioned before how the book was enormously helpful to me in the sense that the relationship I had with my ex-psychiatrist that crossed boundaries was shared by many other women and I wasn't the only idiot out there. Have you gotten to that part yet? Where women who have experienced abuse (especially sexual) in childhood are pretty much sitting ducks in a therapeutic relationship. That it takes a shrink with very strong boundaries to handle such women. I re-read that section where it said the therapist can just 'stop' the relationship and re-enter the real world and the woman (in this case I overdosed) needs a therapist to work through the trauma. The book was extremely accurate, so much that it hurt. Take care, judy
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