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Originally Posted by franki_j
And my T looked at me and frowned and was like "She said that?" and then asked me if it hurt me... What does everyone think about this?
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I think THIS is more what is meant by "blank slate", or what SHOULD be your therapist's blank slate, instead of her providing her obviously negative reaction and asking you a "leading" question about your feelings. There is being supportive, and then there is the T taking up all the space in the room with their own feelings, which is what this feels like to me. If my T says ANYTHING about my family, he ALWAYS apologizes first, literally, as in, "I'm sorry, but your family makes me so angry, the way they blah blah blah" (and this is after many years, and actually meeting my mother, and lots of work). Otherwise he keeps a pretty straight face, interested, sympathetic, but questions are more along the lines of the stereotypical "and how did that make you FEEEEEEL?" - he would never ask if I felt hurt, I don't think. He does ask if something, an accomplishment, felt good.