Posted by Pfinstegg on January 5, 2005, at 22:20:35
In reply to I think...., posted by Dinah on January 5, 2005, at 20:59:46
The same question occasionally comes up for me, Dinah. I do know you have gotten a lot from your therapist, and that you almost certainly would not change. But I sometimes feel an absence, both on his and your part, of a real sense that you can really get well. I sometimes wonder why there is more emphasis on *maintenance* than growth in many of your posts. I realize that you feel that there are some built-in psychological limitations on your part, but I don't feel that way about you! You haven't given me any reason to think that you have built-in permanent limitations- in fact, I can't believe it when you say you do. Could it be partly the result of the dynamics between you and your therapist? Therapists like Daisy's and mine apparently are both known for treating people with difficult problems, long-term, but I know mine, at least, thinks both in terms of me really getting well, and of having me come essentially as long as I feel I need to. I don't know for sure, but I suspect Daisy's may be very similiar in aims and technique. But you are your therapist's ONLY really long-term client! He apparently has not been trained in the same way as ours have, and may therefore have some real constraints and limitations on what he's able to accomplish with someone in intensive, long-term therapy. Although it's not really right to compare one person to another, if I, with csa and a disorder on the dissociative spectrum, am expected to eventually get genuinely well, why not you? I'd think your chances are at least as good as mine (probably better).
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