Posted by Tamar on May 4, 2005, at 19:15:24
In reply to Re: Dynamic Supportive Therapy, anyone? » Tamar, posted by Dinah on May 4, 2005, at 17:59:15
> Someone here once quoted a therapist who said they avoided clients who dripped transference potential, or something along those lines.
I think I read that once while googling the term ‘transference’. Wasn't the term 'oozing with transference potential'? If I recall, it sent me into something approaching panic! I tracked it down again just now and read the inimitable line (from the same piece): ‘Please don’t kill yourself or anyone because of some transference from your childhood.’ If I write what I think of that, I’ll get my first pbc. Might get one anyway…
> I know that single statement would tell me an awful lot about a therapist, and most of it would tell me I didn't want a therapist who didn't ooze even a bit of compassion.
Too right!
> And the real kicker is that no one on earth would have pegged me as someone who oozed transference potential. And my therapist did nothing to encourage it.
Well, at least it sounds as if he didn’t actually *dis*courage it. I’m still inclined to think it’s dishonest to discourage it. I think setting out with the expectation that transference can be discouraged is on a par with trying to fly to Neptune in a bathtub with an outboard motor. It’s somewhat unrealistic. Not that I feel strongly about it, or anything :)
Apologies to happyflower; I seem to hijacked this thread. I didn’t mean to; it set me off for some reason (well, for *obvious* reasons).
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