Posted by Honore on March 23, 2007, at 3:28:30
In reply to Re: what type of therapy are you all in? » gazo, posted by annierose on March 21, 2007, at 19:49:16
My T is an analyst (interpersonal, which is a type of psychodynamic psychoanalsysis, different in approach from more Freudian=deprived psychoanalysis-- although they are evolving much closer now).
I see him more as a therapist than an analyst-- but you could also say it's analysis. Mostly because that's what he "does'--
It's more intensive ( in numbers of time a week and in emotional investment in the process and in him) and long term.
I don't necessarily recommend it unless you really need it== which I do-- because it's very time-consuming and emotionally draining. But T can become a separate seeming "source" of emotional problems-- in some way that's how it helps, but repeating and concentrating some other emotional issues in terms of the therapy relationship, and then finding ways of working them through differently and better than you have in your RL.
I would agree that you have to give yourself permission to be a little obsessed and sad over the ending of the therapy. No good new T would look at your feelings as other than an important development in your emotional life, that you need help processing.
But it is good to test a new T before putting everything out there-- you don't know who s/he is-- and whether you have the sort of connection that can contain the feelings.
Honore
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