Posted by antigua3 on June 5, 2009, at 12:45:44
In reply to emotional withholding in psychotherapy, posted by backseatdriver on June 4, 2009, at 14:19:18
When my T has teared up at my emotionaless recitation of an event, she usually explains that it is because she feels bad for me in what I'm telling her, that I had to face those things as a child. I admit that it has been helpful, as I have no barometer on the severity of what happened to me. She gives me perspective.
It sounds like this was her own issue that she didn't want to own up to. But that's just my opinion. I also agree that this makes the patient want to care for the T when it should be the other way around.
Tell her how you felt. It's important.
antigua
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