Posted by steelmagnolia25 on June 21, 2004, at 19:49:37
In reply to Re: Do Ts really care about you? » pinkeye, posted by Raindancer on June 21, 2004, at 19:12:46
I think that the really good T's do care. It takes a person with genuine empathy and compassion to understand and advise a troubled patient. Without those qualities, I think the T is not very helpful at all. I guess the real test that discerns the good T from the bad is caring enough to be helpful, but not caring so much that personal feelings become an obstacle to true healing. In that way, it might indeed be hard to find a T that can strike the right balance.
As for your post, I hope that you're starting to feel better about your T. But if the feeling that he doesn't really care persists, then it may be prudent to seek someone who does. I think sometimes we stay in therapy with a bad T the same way some women stay with a bad hairdresser (!).
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