Posted by Dinah on June 16, 2005, at 10:21:27
In reply to Do Therapists need to care?, posted by cricket on June 16, 2005, at 8:48:03
Yes, I think they can.
It may depend a lot on the type of therapy you're doing. But I think as long as they like you as a person and care about how you do, they can help you.
For me, how my therapist thought of me didn't matter until I had invested years in what was really interpersonal therapy that used the relationship. Once I had spent significant emotional capital in the relationship, it started to worry me.
But I don't think it needs to be important for therapy to work.
I do think they can't dislike you (although mine tacitly admits that my intuitive feeling that he didn't like me in the first few years was not incorrect).
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