Posted by baseball55 on March 18, 2013, at 19:30:54
In reply to Re: Transference with psychiatrist, posted by AMB on March 18, 2013, at 10:34:50
If he's a skilled therapist, you should be able to talk to him about this. It's not clingy to call him if you need him unless he objects that you call too much. I saw a p-doc for eight years for therapy and developed such intense transference that I couldn't help but talk about it because just seeing him would make me cry. It wasn't romantic though. It was more like I wanted him to be my father. I think a romantic transference would be more painful and hard to discuss, but it's good to discuss it. You need to get it out in the open with both him and your female therapist, so it's not eating you up inside.
Like I said, any skilled therapist (including p-docs) is trained to expect and deal with this with compassion and empathy while maintaining reasonable boundaries.
I also saw two therapists for a few years -- him and a female DBT therapist. It helped a lot to talk to her about it, because I felt like talking to him about it just made me feel more dependent on him. Therapy can be intense.
Well, you've done it before, so you know.
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