Posted by Susan47 on July 22, 2004, at 18:58:18
In reply to Re: For Steelmagnolia, posted by starlight on July 22, 2004, at 18:14:34
> This seems like a hard topic to tease out, on one hand the therapist is taking advantage of the patient, but on the other isn't the patient to a certain extent taking advantage of the doc as well?
To the extent that a patient is getting his/her needs met, I suppose you could say s/he is "taking advantage". In the real definition of a patient in therapy, though, neediness is part of the equation and therefore how could s/he possibly be taking advantage of anyone?
Doesn't that require that the T be a rather weak-willed person?
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