Posted by Pfinstegg on September 1, 2004, at 22:36:39
In reply to Re: Does your Therapist understand how important they » Pfinstegg, posted by DaisyM on September 1, 2004, at 21:59:27
No, I haven't been able to do that yet, although my analyst often asks if she can speak to me. I speak a lot to her; he has been encouraging me to understand and comfort her; when I feel at my most upset, I can almost always calm down quite a lot if I try to think of things from her point of view. I often imagine consoling her by stroking her blonde pigtails. It's almost a sure way to fall asleep!
She doesn't speak yet, but she does speak in dreams. In them, she has rearranged the analyst's office, bringing in her favorite toys and animals from her childhood, changed the couch to a different location, etc. Then she said, "OK! Now I'm at home. Now I can tell you things, and it will help me a lot". And she does, a bit more, each day.
I never thought of myself as having any kind of ego state or dissociative disorder! It's so easy to have one and not know it! Do you think other people here might have them, but that their therapists don't work in that way, and so they don't find out? I've always wondered about that, as I think it's just you and me who write about it.
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