Posted by Dinah on February 3, 2003, at 22:12:06
In reply to Re: Why can't you see more than one therapist at once?, posted by JenR on February 2, 2003, at 21:33:02
> So if you were rotating therapists, when the pressure builds with one, you get to escape the issue by going to the other, instead of dealing with it.
Ooh, that sounds like a good thing. :)
Seriously, you raise good points. And I know that part of my problem is fear of overdependence on him. I suppose if I could work to the point where I wasn't terrified of abandonment and didn't feel dependent, that would be the best thing.
And one thing I did to evaluate his competence was to read very intensively in the last little while books and articles written by "experts" in the areas that I need help with. And honestly I wasn't tremendously impressed with their techniques over my therapist's. In fact some of them seem downright, well, odd. So unless I can have Steven Levenkron *as he describes himself in his books* I think I'm just as well off with this guy. I think it's better to have someone who admits he doesn't have all the answers rather than someone who thinks he does, but is wrong.
So I'm feeling a bit better about the whole thing. And I explored what else was out there without ever leaving my therapist's couch, so to speak.
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