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Originally Posted by hankster
1. You're assuming they're surprised. 2. You're assuming they're not equipped to deal with it.
If their way of dealing with it is to refer a person out, that could be due to their own vulnerability, either in general or to this particular client, or it may be because, in their judgment, the client doesn't show the kind of insight into the transference that would make the t feel comfortable. Whatever that may be. That's my opinion.
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I think therapists often show they are ill-equipped to handle it. And I don't think it is the client's job to make the therapist comfortable. And how would a client come to have insight necessarily without the assistance of the therapist? Sometimes clients are right.