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Originally Posted by Anne2.0
My post was badly worded with respect to this issue-- what I meant to say was that all professionals (as a group, not as all individuals within that group) have been known to blame clients/students/patients for failures. That is, doctors can blame patients for being "noncompliant", lawyers blame clients for testifying badly, T's blame clients for "resistance", teachers and professors blame students for not studying enough, etc. I didn't mean that every T blames every client for every failure, I meant to say that every profession has some folks in it who have a tendency to blame others for their professional failures, either consistently or on some occasions with some people-- at times it is surely justified, others it isn't, and most of the time it's probably really hard to tell whose "fault" it is.
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Anne, those are good examples that you gave where insulation from failure occurs on the professionals part. I think sensitivity to this nuance in therapy due to the nature of situational vulnerability is greatly increased.
I have to admit that although the examples that you gave should be obvious in some general sense, I may not have noticed them had you not pointed them out so clearly.
Thank you