I am an advocate of the blank slate therapeutic approach. I don't want to feel responsible for what I might say that might upset my T, or trigger him. Therefore, the less I know about him, the more free I feel to talk.

I am of the opinion that a physician does not have to know what a broken leg feels like in order to treat one. What I want is a highly skilled practioner.

For me, the trust I feel with my therapist comes with what he does with the information he gathers from me, and the therapeutic plan he initiates based on that.

I think I am lucky that I found a psychiatrist who also does psychodynamic therapy. I simply can not imagine that after all those years of training that he has not been witness to the sequelae of all forms of abuse.