Posted by MissK on February 1, 2008, at 17:20:00
In reply to ferapist daddies and emotional incest » Dinah, posted by zazenducke on February 1, 2008, at 10:09:52
Well, zazenducke, it's been my experience and many others that I have seen here to express 'childlike' emotions and thinking in therapy. When someone's issues go back far, so can their emotions and mindset surrounding the issue. The idea in some cases, I think, is to resolve it there and absorb it into the adult experience and mind.
As for danger of exploitation, that possibility exists with an unscrupulous therapist, perhaps. One doesn't even have to be expressing a childlike mind. Even as adults, when we open ourselves and make ourselves vulnerable to another's influence there is the risk of exploitation of that vulnerability.
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