Posted by Jost on May 24, 2006, at 22:22:12
In reply to An alternate opinion on patients becoming Ts » shrinking violet, posted by orchid on May 24, 2006, at 21:27:10
Shrinking Violet,
It's really the other way around: most therapists are people who have had emotional conflicts. They also had an intellectual interest in the subject and (presumably) the feeling of an ability and a desire to help people who have emotional problems, struggles.
If you have those things, and get good training--which is a matter of showing some aptitude and also sticking with the schooling, the internships and the working-through of your own issues to the point of at least understanding what they are, and how they affect your work-- there's no reason you shouldn't do it.
Therapists are anything but "perfect" or even perfectly-analyzed, people--
Jost
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