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Old Feb 04, 2013, 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Asiablue View Post
How many of you have therapists who admit to experiencing counter-transference with you?

Do you suspect there's counter-tranference but your T isn't admitting to it or do they openly work thru it with you?
Mine has only vaguely alluded to such, on one occasion, when she said that something we were discussing was more about her stuff than mine. It actually felt kind of disingenuous at the time.

I definitely suspect countertransference and have recently been going around and around with T about whether she has been angry with me in the past. She finally acknowledged some irritation and frustration. Maybe this is an erroneous view, but it's always seemed to me that if it were really true that she's never been angry with me, then she's not all that emotionally invested in the relationship. And maybe she doesn't need to be, but I don't really want a T that's impervious.