Posted by gardenergirl on June 2, 2006, at 2:00:23
In reply to Re: Anger here, maybe a trigger, maybe dissension » gardenergirl, posted by susan47 on May 28, 2006, at 2:09:28
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> So what happens when a therapist does abandon a patient, gg? I mean, it obviously happens. I know. And no matter what the ethical guidelines are, it is then too late and an unwitting, innocent person has been hurt. The guidelines as they stand do not stop it from happening.Of course not. No guideline can do that. No law can do that. But there are recourses for those who truly have been abandoned. For example, they can complain to the professional board or professional organization. They can work through their feelings with another T or here. No profession is perfect and no profession is made up entirely of perfect people.
> And it happens, more than it should.
It never "should" happen. But I'd like to point out that feeling abandoned is not necessarily the same thing as being abandoned.
>But first, perhaps, there should be a review by an independently chosen physician of some type, perhaps a psychiatrist, someone who actually has more knowledge than either of the two parties, who can intervene and try and make it right, somehow, first.
Actually, a physician and perhaps even a psychiatrist would have less knowledge about the unique therapy relationship than those within that relationship. Psychiatrists have been trained in psychotherapy, but they usually have less training in this than clinical psychologists graduating at the same time. And while such an idea might have a beneficial effect on a small number of therapy terminations which are not mutually agreed upon, I don't believe it's practical nor do I think it would be effective in achieving what I think you are looking for.
>Because it could happen that way, it could be a hell of a much more enlightened process than it is right now.
Of course your own experiene is most meaningful and relevant to you, but I do not think that it is necessarily representative of how therapy ends in a majority of cases.
I'm sorry that yours ended badly.
gg
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