Posted by Dinah on August 6, 2008, at 18:19:03
In reply to Re: Seeing my therapist as a real person, posted by Lemonaide on August 6, 2008, at 18:05:01
Perhaps it's not such a bad thing to not want to see them in person, or if they're different in person.
My therapist is my therapist/mommy in that room. It's not just that I push that vision onto a blank slate. It's true. His attitude to me is one that would look decidedly odd were he to meet me in public, and even odder if he were to meet me when he was with his family or I was with mine.
People behave differently in different contexts. Even if they are being completely and totally sincere and open about who they are.
We can be as intimate and open as we are in that room because we're in that room. Possibly on both sides. Intimacy that is appropriate in one place would be inappropriate in another.
To have to juggle all that would make therapy harder than it needs to be, IMO.
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