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Ygrec23 · Apr 03, 2011, 04:21 PM

Protoform said: "Perhaps a class action lawsuit against the APA."

Won't fly. I think you need to do some more research about "transference" and what it means and includes. Wikipedia and then Google. Looking mainly for ".pdf" files. Transference, as far as I'm concerned (I'm not a T), means re-enacting with your T ways of relating that you learned in early childhood with your mother and father. Not falling in love with them. And even falling in love with T's is mostly confined to female patients. You have such a belligerent and angry approach. And I don't think that's going to get you anywhere. If you seriously try to understand not only yourself but therapy too, you'll see that this is a very deep and subtle process dealing almost completely with your own psychological innards. Not those of the therapist. Forget lawsuits. Forget revenge. Find a male T who can lead you in a productive search into yourself, into your own mind, conscious or unconscious, now or back in childhood. And give up this idea of blaming others for problems that come from within yourself. That will not help you at all. At all. Take care.