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Posted by HomelyCygnet on August 24, 2013, at 11:03:12
Are there no boundaries any more?
Posted by Partlycloudy on August 24, 2013, at 16:13:55
In reply to Would your therapist ask for a recipe?, posted by HomelyCygnet on August 24, 2013, at 11:03:12
> Are there no boundaries any more?
:-)
Thanks for that.
I bring mine tea because she always offers it. Anything decaf.
At one point all of her clients inundated her with tea one week-it must have been cool out!
PC
Posted by Dinah on August 25, 2013, at 13:44:44
In reply to Would your therapist ask for a recipe?, posted by HomelyCygnet on August 24, 2013, at 11:03:12
Did you give it?
I think it might depend on context and the way it was asked. If it was asked in passing in an otherwise therapeutic conversation, I'd likely not think much about it. Of course, I'd also likely forget and I might take less kindly to his reminding me.
Not that my therapist would. I don't think he cooks. But he asked me if I'd send him a link to an article on the brain I had mentioned, and didn't fuss when I forgot.
Posted by sigismund on August 27, 2013, at 1:52:51
In reply to Would your therapist ask for a recipe?, posted by HomelyCygnet on August 24, 2013, at 11:03:12
No, but I gave her a Roxy Music LP, and though I now know she did not like it, she was very gracious.
She also gave me a lift once when I was hitch hiking.
The bottom line with her was (I think) that she would never do anything for her gratification, which was difficult for me once at the end because it was the same as I wanted.
Posted by alexandra_k on August 27, 2013, at 2:22:27
In reply to Re: Would your therapist ask for a recipe? » HomelyCygnet, posted by sigismund on August 27, 2013, at 1:52:51
I can't imagine any of my therapists asking me for a recipe. I wouldn't give them anything I'd made, though. And I'm pretty sure I've never talked about being able to make anything that is particularly good.
Posted by Dinah on August 27, 2013, at 8:55:39
In reply to Re: Would your therapist ask for a recipe?, posted by alexandra_k on August 27, 2013, at 2:22:27
It occurs to me that that would be one therapeutic reason for asking for a recipe, not that there wouldn't be nontherapeutic advantages in getting a good recipe.
Not that the point of therapy is providing direct positive feedback, of course.
A lot of questions about therapy depend a lot on context.
Posted by baseball55 on August 27, 2013, at 19:33:52
In reply to Re: Would your therapist ask for a recipe?, posted by alexandra_k on August 27, 2013, at 2:22:27
I can imagine her asking for a recipe if I described something really good. You don't want therapy to devolve into mindless chatter, but surely there's nothing wrong with veering off now and again for short periods.
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