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Originally Posted by hankster
I feel like I am poking the bear here, but did YOU say these things? Or is she putting words in your mouth? And what exactly is your beef with psychology or psychoanalysis or whatever? I mean, you ARE in therapy, but you reject the basis of the field? Then why do you go to psychotherapy, to get your hair curled? Honestly, not being funny, I just don't understand what you mean when you say you don't go for psychoanalysis. Do you reject concepts like repetition compulsion, and believe everything has its source only in the present? Because that's how I would account for your r/s with T, at least partly.
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First statement, she's echoing my words. Second statement, she came up with herself.
My beef is not with psychology, it is with psychodynamic theory. I believe the therapy process involves not only processing feelings (which can lie), but also cognitions (in the manner of distorted thinking). The feelings and thinking is derived from the experiences of our early years, but we can only fix the present. I believe the therapeutic relationship is real. I don't believe in transference in the relationship other than the transference that occurs in ALL relationships. I don't believe the therapist should be a blank slate. Repetition compulsion, sure, we repeat patterns in our lives because they are familiar and known.