Posted by lonelygirl on March 22, 2004, at 11:11:14
In reply to How's that old tranzfrrenze coming along?, posted by tinydancer on March 22, 2004, at 3:35:06
Hope your appointment goes well today...
I have been reading some old threads on transference (which makes me understand how you can say that "lately there hasn't been much discussion" on it -- and here I thought it was being discussed a lot!), and someone posted a semi-long article about it. One thing that really stood out to me was this:
"To stay in therapy feeds and maintains the obsession; to leave therapy – and to keep away from the therapist – is indescribably painful."
(http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20030711/msgs/245727.html)Soooo true. Anyway, I do not plan on telling my psychologist. He is a CBT, and I know someone else (fallsfall) had one who did not react well to the information. On top of that, he is young and has had only a few years of counseling experience, so he might be freaked out by it. He has also had most (maybe all) of his experience in the university health center, and I suspect that they don't see that many people who are as crazy as me. I think they just get a lot of depression, maybe some eating disorders, alcohol and drug abuse, homosexuals ("coming out" stuff), self-esteem, relationship problems, etc. I am way too embarrassed to tell him, and if he reacted badly (e.g., terminating), I just don't know if I could handle it.
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