Posted by gardenergirl on February 1, 2004, at 14:01:52
In reply to Re: Therapist honesty » Dinah, posted by fallsfall on February 1, 2004, at 13:22:32
I think fallsfall made a lot of good points. I just wanted to add something. This is a self-selected group of people on this board. We are here to ask and answer questions. It makes sense that there would be a lot of questions about boundary crossings, because when it happens, it's confusing. You wonder if your sense of it is correct, and you want other opinions. When T's maintain boundaries, there's really nothing to question. So to add to the data points of T's and boundaries...Bear never crosses boundaries except if we shift into talking about psychology in general. He always prefaces that with, "this isn't why you are here, but..." It's just really hard for two people in the same field, especially when one is learning, not to talk about what they have in common. I don't really consider that a boundary violation.
When I was working in a hand therapy clinic (in another career), I worked with people who had carpal tunnel surgery. I swore I would *never* have the surgery myself if I developed carpal tunnel because it was so difficult afterwards. My supervisor at the time reminded me that we were seeing only the complications and failures, not the successes, of which there were at least 10 for every one patient we had. I'm guessing that there are at least 10 people who don't experience boundary violations such as we have discussed here for every one we have.
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