Posted by judy1 on November 9, 2002, at 23:52:44
In reply to Re: Has anyone successfully lost a therapist? » Dinah, posted by Pfinstegg on November 9, 2002, at 22:44:34
I think Pfinstegg worded it beautifully- that therapy does eventually terminate (unless it's Freudian :-), and you do internalize the positive traits of your therapist and the work you've done together. For you though I wonder if something else is going on, maybe you don't want to write what led to your fears of abandonment so that you felt you had to press him. I test my shrink all the time, are you going to retire?, stop clinical practice and write?- he knows what I'm doing though. Maybe you can concentrate on what precipitated your fears and work on that with him (hmm I think I'm repeating Pfinstegg's advice). It's just when that type of thing happens to me, we can always find something he said (usually an off-hand remark) that gets all the alarms sounding and makes me regress. I hope things settle down for you. take care, judy
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