Posted by lucy stone on June 21, 2004, at 23:05:27
In reply to Re: My experiences with therapy, posted by fires on June 21, 2004, at 21:30:53
I started to answer this post again with a point-by-point argument complete with links to pro-psychoanalysis sites but I stopped myself. I find myself examining my thoughts and trying to figue out why I would do this. I have explored these issues many times with my analyst, my need to be right, my need to be smarted and know more than other people, my need to dominate and control, even the pleasure I get out of being angry and hurting other people. I realize that the argument I am getting into with you is just a repeat of old patterns and is not helpful to me. My treatment is helping me with my life and I realize that my desire to debate this issue is not healthy. This is my analysis in action and it has helped me a great deal. Perhaps you could try a bit of analysis with your own thoughts. Why do you feel it necessary to challenge people on their treatments? What exactly is this doing for you? I suspect that you will say that you are trying to be helpful, but I wonder if the posters you are challenging find your comments helpful. I suspect that the challenging has more to do with your own needs that with the needs of the posters. I'll play amateur T and speculate that it has something to do with anger at the Ts that did not help you in the past and let you suffer much longer than you needed to. My wish for you is that you find a good T, and there are good ones out there, that can help you with your issues.
poster:lucy stone
thread:358678
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20040614/msgs/358836.html