Posted by rskontos on July 22, 2009, at 22:20:09
In reply to to terminate or keep going, posted by deerock on July 21, 2009, at 10:18:34
deerock,
I don't know a great deal about my therapist/pdoc who is an psychoanalyst but then again, I did not want to know much. I felt knowing more made it personal and I did not want personal. I felt safety in the boundaries put up by not knowing. I don't need someone else to feel guilty about or worrying about them. I need my t to be someone that is just supportive enough, not too touchy feely, not to personal. It has been what has been helpful..Sometimes his manner of delivery of his thoughts has hurt until I really thought about what he said and then it made sense.
Therapy is painful no matter how it is handled. It just is. You have to try and realize early that it is going to be hard and hurt but in the end maybe you will be a bit better. Maybe a great deal better.
It is a crap shoot if you ask me.
rsk
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