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Originally Posted by lastyearisblank
Well, transference in the way you're talking about it here is basically a crush. Training would be based on making the client not feel rejected for having natural feelings.
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And how does that kill the pain of having a crush with the therapist?
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It would also be an important part of the therapy. Some approaches see a crush as an expression of the client's unmet needs and ideally therapy would be a safe enough place to talk about that.
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If the client wants to talk about it. But what if those unmet needs are not the reason the client went to therapy?
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I mean we don't go around suing people for being too loveable that we fall in love with them.
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Yes, that would be absurd. And that's why I would never file such a lawsuit, because it would be turned into a joke. However, lawsuit or no lawsuit, therapists should be more sensitive to the emotions of vulnerable clients, and actually take steps to make it unlikely that the clients will develop strong feelings toward them.