Posted by Dinah on July 17, 2003, at 10:02:31
In reply to Re: Same sex therapist? No No., posted by Tabitha on July 17, 2003, at 0:48:48
Maybe it depends on your level of development, Tabitha. Maybe you are past that transference stage. :) Or maybe it's how you view her - as a consultant maybe?
There was a part of me that just sees him as a therapist, and thinks he could easily be replaced by another one, maybe even a better one. But there's another part of me that thinks he's magic. That I feel bad and see him and feel better. Definitely a very early childhood maternal transference.
For what it's worth, I tried a couple of times to use him as an erotic fantasy. I mean, it's almost de rigeur to fall in love with your therapist, right? But it didn't work, *at all*. Yuck. It just felt icky. So erotic transference I just can't do with him - it feels too incestuous. But maybe a maternal transference is just a different way of falling in love.
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