Posted by onceupon on December 3, 2008, at 22:43:21
In reply to Relationship with your T in your head?, posted by FindingMyDesire on December 3, 2008, at 0:35:11
Reading everyone's responses on this thread has really got me thinking. I've always talked to my therapist in my head - more often when I'm feeling distressed, lonely, needy, etc. But she doesn't really ever talk back in my head. That fact made me wonder to what extent I've actually "internalized" her, as a therapist, or as a person.
Then again, I don't often imagine conversations with other people either, so maybe it's just my lack of imagination.
It occurs to me that the kind of talking in my head that I do with my therapist is usually very affect-laden, crisis-y kinds of stuff. And it usually involves some kind of desperate discussion of how I feel towards her - this is, of course, the kind of stuff that I don't get into as much as I'd like in sessions. It always seems to take me so damned long to warm up (IRL) before I can get anything out.
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