Myself-

I do have degree in the field but I never said whether or not I practice the field.
And I'm not going to reveal whether or not I am.
I'm very analytical by nature. My main passions are law and study of the mind. Both require very analytical skills and logical thinking - which I am by nature. Have always been consistently score as INTP in Myers-Briggs.

And no, I didn't attacked you in my first response to poster. I'm sorry if you feel that way. Actually, I never read your first response. I just read the poster's complaint. I only responded because of your post on differentiating between transference and attachment. Yes, each has a right to their opinion. I love reading different views. It's the only way one can learn.

And you're right - I'm not going to go round and round with this topic. Please read my last message to "All" at the end of this post.

Alteredstate01 -

Not sure if I'm feeling what I'm feeling because of current personal experience. Recently, I had an argument with psychiatrist because he doesn't believe that I want to get better. I already like him because we click but now better because now I know he's involved emotionally - that I'm not just a patient with a number whom he gets to experiment drugs with. I'm still debating if his personal involvement will jeopardize my treatment (he got so frustrated because I have a logical answer to everything he said that he hung up on me).

My T? Not sure yet. Still trying her on. So.. only time will tell. She did become a mediator between me and pdoc, which is funny. She thinks that I'm going to drop him (because I was so dang mad at him) when in reality... I was about to drop her because her speciality is different than what I have been pre-dx with. I just don't want her to feel that she's incompetent... I just need someone with more experience with my pre-dx.

All -

I don't think it's significant at this point whether Sezzie is experience transference or attachment. What's important is that she needs to deal with this issue. If we focus on labeling on the problem... then the actual problem will never be solved. And I think we all agree that she needs to face her T in order to do that.

Psychology is not an exact science. We can only determine labeling by what the person tells his/her pdoc. And it takes a brilliant, experience pdoc to correctly dx a patient on a first try.

So... what I'm saying is... specifically in mental health - a patient can go to 5 different pdocs and gets 5 different opinions. This is why many changes pdocs, therapists and drugs.
Even in medical field we'll experience that but only medical field a dx is important because it is an exact science.