Posted by Dinah on December 27, 2002, at 9:33:35
In reply to Re: Therapist Is Causing Me Pain - Please Help!, posted by Phil on December 27, 2002, at 7:56:00
Phil's got good advice there about confronting them before firing them. I did that with my therapist, and not only did he make a genuine effort to change, and did change in many ways, but I also found out a lot about the way I came across to him (and presumably to others as well). Your therapist might just be of the old blank slate school and it has nothing at all to do with you and there is no way she'll change. Or it might be like the situation with my therapist. When you compare notes, you might find that each of you is having a completely different relationship with the perceived other rather than the real other. My therapist and I hashed out a lot of incorrect perceptions about the other and I think each of us learned something about ourselves too.
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