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Old Feb 05, 2013, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Crescent Moon View Post

Countertransference is so very dangerous to the client if the therapist does not recognize it and effectively manage it. My first therapist became horribly toxic to me because he did not manage his transference. The therapy crashed and burned, and I almost didn't survive it.
Sounds almost precisely like me.
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