Posted by Eddie Sylvano on November 26, 2003, at 9:08:00
It's no big surprise that people develop crushes or attachements to their therapists. Therapy is a very intimate environment, and intimacy breeds attachment, especially when that person is as accepting and supportive as the role of therapist mandates. It's an artificial recipie for closeness; it gets issues addressed that would require years of dating anyone else. The therapist is also desirable if you like the "hard to get" types. It's a situation bathed in the idea that nothing will happen, so to speak.
Even if it isn't an idea you might consciously entertain, the presence of a potential mate puts anyone in a different frame of mind, of self-consciousness, when you'd ideally be thinking about your more routine internal psychodynamics.
Given this, what do any of you think about the importance of gender? Does it matter? Has either gender helped more?
poster:Eddie Sylvano
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