geez, it is just recently that your T has become very forgetful, or has she always been this way? If it is recent, I am wondering if perhaps she is having some sort of health issue or her practice has gotten much more busy lately and her brain is overwhelmed. If it is recent, you could mention that to her: "I've notice lately that blah blah blah--are you OK?"

If it is not recent, I would still point out what is going on. For example, if my T told me that I seem to be OK and that I was doing better, I would definitely be interested in that! Ts offer us their interpretations and I am always really interested to hear mine! He doesn't give them often, so I like when he does. I know that they are just his interpretations, and if they are not correct, he wants to hear that from me, so he comes to understand me better. If I felt that I was not OK, I would tell my T, "I really don't feel OK, but I'm interested in why you think that. Can you tell me why you thought that?" It's interesting to hear his perceptions.

My T forgets things quite a bit, but I am forgetful too, so I excuse this pretty easily. If I refer to something I said at a previous session and he sits there looking at me blankly, I may ask him, "I think I mentioned this earlier, is this ringing a bell at all? Should I keep going?" I don't want to repeat something he already remembers, and then sometimes I will say a little more and he will say yes now he remembers (or maybe not!). Sometimes there are things that I felt were really significant that it seems my T has forgotten. On the other hand, sometimes there are things my T recalls months and months later with incredible detail and this makes me feel really good.

Sometimes my T "recalls" things about me that are not true, LOL. Like he seems to have fixated in his mind that my parents live in a certain town about 4 hours away. In reality, they live in our area, about a 30 minute drive away.

I don't think I would like it if my T continually excused his memory lapses by saying he was thinking about another client.

I am not sure you are being overly critical, but I think you are being "underly communicative" about this stuff with your T. If she has suddenly become really forgetful and her clients are noticing it, she should know. And when she makes an interpretation that doesn't really fit, can you tell her how things really are with you? Otherwise she won't learn how to help you better. Plus, it would be interesting for you to learn what has lead her to these incorrect observations.

Good luck, geez.