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Originally Posted by Mastodon
I'm actually not sure that learning to have a positive relationship with a therapist is necessarily a good thing (though perhaps it can be). It does not mean anything other than that the T is a good person doing their job well. It does not mean that equally good relationships are possible with people who are not obliged to create relationships as part of their job.
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Whilst I see what you mean with this, I think a good therapist doesn't just indulge a client and blow smoke up their *** in order to make a contrived 'good' relationship. I think they challenge you, and pull you up on things, and talk straight, as well as all the empathy/acceptance/love and then this teaches us about what it means to have honest contact with others (good relationship skills) almost by osmosis. Which we then can apply in other relationships outside the therapy room.