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Re: a link » Joslynn

Posted by Dinah on January 15, 2004, at 18:45:04

In reply to a link, posted by Joslynn on January 15, 2004, at 13:17:49

I liked the first link. I think my therapist would fare very well under it.

But some of the legal links bothered me quite a bit. If a therapist is going to go around terminating clients because they have feelings for them because they're afraid of being sued, they just shouldn't be in the helping professions. The therapist/client relationship shouldn't be an adversarial one, and the lawyers will make it into that if you let them. I would be enormously disappointed in my therapist if he behaved in a manner harmful to a client for fear of being sued.

There's very little more harmful to a client than abandonment. And abandonment for expressing your feelings is cruel beyond measure.

(But I would like to sit on my therapist's lap sometimes, and have him smooth my hair back. Nothing sexual and not that he or I would ever act on it, but wouldn't it be soothing?)

 

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