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Re: Therapist ***ttriggers*** » OzLand

Posted by Honore on August 4, 2007, at 11:04:53

In reply to Re: Therapist ***ttriggers***, posted by OzLand on August 3, 2007, at 23:11:16

I never experienced csa and it must be a very different experience from other types of abuse and neglect-- my parents were much more coldly indifferent. So I don't know how much it changes how a T works with a patient.

That's why I'm hesitant to say that I would find it a bit intrusive if a T asked what my favorite Bergman movies were and then said he planned to watch them-- unless I had especially asked him to see one. (My T wouldn't do it-- anyway.) But I would find it disturbing, and perhaps a bit invasive-- unless I were able to set the boundaries and know why he wanted to see them. To "insert" himself or "get inside me" would definitely feel like an unwanted intrusion-- but is that a good thing?

I wouldn't want to think of revealing things as disrobing-- but maybe I have a lot of hangups about boundaries--not having strong ones, and maybe creating overly strong ones in other ways. So maybe my reactions aren't relevant-- it's more how you feel it works with you. I'd rather symbolize T as investigating or exploring things, clarifying or reexperiencing them-- maybe I prefer the dissection or scientific types of images to the sexual ones-- if you think of Freud's psychodynamic images--or more abstract interpersonal ones.

I worry about you, though, Ozland. Not in a bad way-- I'm concerned and want things to go well. I worry that your T is going too fast, or pushing too hard-- and that that's an experience you're all too familiar with. Maybe it's good, he's experienced and knows the way people respond when it's too much. But T's are human, they make a lot of mistakes, and misjudgments, just like all people.

I'm more comfortable when I feel somewhat in control of the boundaries and limits-- I guess it's a question of where the boundaries need to be, and where they need to be relaxed and made less restrictive.

It's great that you're keeping a journal. I'd love to read a book about your experiences at Menninger's-- especially since it would be written from more complex point of view and different sensibility from the other ex-patients' books I've read, many of which are instructive, but not as insightful about the other side of the relationship, or the world of psychoanalysis/ psychotherapy.

Honore


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