What if you're therapist had the power to touch you and suddenly know everything about you?Would you allow the touch to take place?
Does the thought of it make you recoil?
Does it make you want to run into your therapist arms?

That would give the therapist a lot of power.

What if you could touch your therapist and suddenly know everything about your therapist? Would you touch your therapist?
Would you be afraid to find out that your therapist is completely unqualified?
Would your therapist recoil?

I believe the therapeutic setting is designed to be a safe surrgate environment where the suspension of disbelief can take place. Suspension of disbelief of what though?

That there is no one that is trustworthy. Trust is a 1 way street in therapy or 1 way touch. the truth is every time we speak to a therapist we allow them to touch us. We allow them to know us.
Who are we trusting more? The therapist or ourselves?

If the patient finds out that the therapist is un trustworthy in any way, it will reinforce the idea that no 1 is trustworthy, which reinforces the excuse not to trust.

These are only my observations and are only personal to me.

I see the therapist patient relationship the same way I see the god man relationship and even The parent child relationship.
The patient trust the therapist.
Man puts his trust in God.
The Child Trust their parents.

Why?

Because the struggles are similar.
We grow in trust. ( therapist parent God)
We begin trusting ourselves and realizing it.
We become responsible to that trust in self and develop autonomy.
Most of my struggles in therapy are compounded by the fact that it was not voluntary. establishing trust is near impossible.
I don't like the power differential.

To answer my initial question...
I would never allow a therapist to touch me and suddenly know everything about me, any more than I would allow a parent or God to touch me and know me.

A therapist is nothing more than a foster parent or God by proxy like a priest.
Those roles in life require trustworthiness.

Think about how much power a parent, God or a therapist has simply by knowing us.
That power is best demonstrated by way of restraint.
If I feel threatened with a touch that doesn't have my consent, I don't care if your a foster parent, God or a therapist...
My rule is...
If you get to touch me I get to touch you.

GB