Posted by alexandra_k on September 10, 2004, at 19:33:35
I am 5'7 and fairly solidly built. Something that I have realised about myself is that I don't tend to feel physically attracted to guys who are smaller in body type than me.
Even transference doesn't seem to happen too well when the Dr is smaller than me, as is typically the case with Indian, or Eastern p-docs.
I am reminded a little of Margaret Atwood's novel "Lady Oracle" where the protagonist was fairly hefty and she says something about the Count being like an otter scuttering across her vast continent of a body. Well, maybe it is not an otter exactly, but there is something faintly amusing at the thought.
Is transference supposed to be a good thing, a bad thing, or a sometimes good sometimes bad thing? Just wondering because I have done a lot of CBT focus on the here and now type treatment in which it was a bad thing. But some other styles of therapy view it differently.
Has anyone here satisfactorily worked through transference issues???
Bewildered...
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