Posted by Mair on November 5, 2001, at 10:58:27
In reply to Re: Egotistical Psychiatrists Who Are Control Freaks!, posted by Waterlily on November 5, 2001, at 7:13:16
I used to have a pdoc who was also for a time my therapist. Although things didn't work out for me a well as I might have hoped he set a standard of professionalism that i've always appreciated. At one point, he had me going to see a woman therapist in his practice, in addition to seeing him. Sometime after that the practice started splintering in a pretty acrimonious manner. Basically it was started by my pdoc, and all of the other therapists and docs in the practice, except maybe one other, decided to go off and start a new practice. During this upheaval, my doc had to go to Europe for a couple of months and I continued to see his female colleague. At this stage the break-up was planned but not yet completed. I was pretty equivocal about therapy at the time and spent alot of time while my pdoc was away, discussing with this therapist whether i should continue. I realized that I was also casting about in a pretty obvious way for some affirmation of all of the work I had already done with this pdoc. She pretty much refused to say anything positive about him. In the meantime, i got a couple of unsolicited letters from him while he was in Europe encouraging me to continue to see this woman in therapy while he was away. Given the acrimony that existed, i always just felt that she was letting that spill over into our therapy sessions, while he was very professionally trying to make sure I was ok in his absence even if that meant having me continue to see someone with whom he was barely on speaking terms.
He also once called me up from a pay phone on an interstate highway just to check on me. This was not in response to any message from me. he just knew i was really down.Mair
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