Posted by gardenergirl on August 8, 2008, at 19:23:38
In reply to the wrong thing... » llurpsienoodle, posted by twinleaf on August 8, 2008, at 18:37:06
> The therapist I've got now even said once how "tempting it was to have social interactions with patients who are also colleagues. That can satisfy short term needs of the therapist, but can also make it harder for the patient to say what he truly needs to say."
That really gets to the heart of it, the short term needs of the T. I was also fortunate in that my T was very mindful of this issue. I did bring stuff from some of my cases into therapy. At times it felt similar to supervision, but it was a safer place to explore whatever was going on with me about that case than supervision was at times. And my T was also good about keeping it about me and not about doing therapy.
Llurps, I can see how bad that would feel if your T was too focused on you the clinician and not all of you. I don't recall a super-similar situation, but I do recall feeling frustrated and unheard when my T would focus a lot on my strengths and the positives when I was feeling so bad about the negatives.
((((llurps)))) It's all fodder for the brave. You're brave. Still, go at your pace and take care of yourself, 'k?
gg
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