Posted by RealMe on October 8, 2007, at 2:09:42
In reply to another bad termination, posted by pegasus on October 7, 2007, at 21:49:47
I agree with you completely. When I was doing therapy, I had a patient who used to rage at me week after week. She did this with her previous therapist and the one before as well. What would happen was that the previous therapist was idealized and the current therapist was just no good. Well, one day she said to me that she had this fantasy to chop me up in little pieces, boil me in a pot, eat me, and then vomit me up. Rather appalling to most people, but it did not freak me out. She was struggling with wanting to be an infant who would be cared for like a baby, and when this did not happen with a therapist, she would become enraged. She did some very intrusive things in terms of my personal life that we had to address as well.
I certainly would have handled the comments about wishing the family were eliminated so she could have T all to herself. What is to get angry about. The patient was honest. How many patients wish this but never speak it outloud? I would hazzard there are more than a few. I would have just said something to the effect that nothing was going to happen in that regard, and then I would begin to address what it is that is driving this patient to literally become obsessed with the notion of a romantic relationship. What is the patient avoiding with this, and what is real life link, past and present.
RealMe
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