Posted by shortelise on February 25, 2004, at 22:49:34
In reply to Re: Do therapists help you in overcoming transference? » pinkeye, posted by fallsfall on February 25, 2004, at 20:13:11
At times I have really wanted my therapist to explain the therapeutic ... dynamic ... the process in the terms in which he sees it. When I felt angry with him, enraged, it might sometimes have helped if he had said, hey, you're not really angry at me, you're angry about ----. But he didn't do that, not in so many words. And later I would see, surely because he was guiding me, what I was really angry about. He just let me live it, let me feel whatever it was. I think that might be an important point of therapy, to let people feel their feelings. I for one wasn't given the opportunity to do that sometimes. I forgot it was allowed.
I begin to wonder if what I write here is mundane or silly. If it is, would someone please clue me in? Thanks.
ShortE
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