I think therapists don't want to be suggestive. Therapists can sway very vulnerable patients to come up with memories that never happened by asking specific questions. One of the ways I knew to drop my previous therapist was because she was asking very specific questions that I just didn't appreciate. Like "How did he groom you into doing all this stuff" "What do you mean"? "How did he manipulate you not to tell your parents? Most sexual abusers do that". That was really suggestive of her. Now I already know that that happened, but I hadn't told her yet, and had I been a client who hadn't figured that out yet, I would have been talked into thinking he had done that. So I was scared about the future and what she would also tell me by matching me up against "most sexual abuse cases". They shouldn't be suggestive. I never had anyone ever ask me if I was sexually abused as a child, it took me years to tell someone.
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