Posted by Dinah on December 16, 2003, at 9:34:50
In reply to Re: therapist crying » Dinah, posted by DaisyM on December 16, 2003, at 0:10:51
Yes, perhaps so. And perhaps it was countertransference on his part. That it wasn't that he cared about them more, but that they were discussing things that brought up painful issues from his own past.
He has often said that he would have to feel caring for me to work with me for so long, or maybe that was after working with me so long - something like that. I guess maybe that's true. I always tend to see myself as a barnacle with the relationships I care about, so that he really would have had a hard time shaking me. :)
I might bring it up again briefly to tell him I spent some time trying, and failing, to think of moving incidents from my past. Which makes me feel like a huge fraud. What right do I have to take up therapy space when I have none?
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