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Old Jan 08, 2014, 12:57 AM
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Originally Posted by RTerroni View Post
No I am not saying that your Therapist should be your friend at all but if you were to attend an intimate gathering together than you are both there for a very specific reason so you should embrace it, basically you take the Therapist and Client glasses off when you get there and put on other glasses (obviously I don't mean this in a literal sense) that are appropriate for the gathering, and when you leave you put the Therapist and Client glasses back on. It is not about discussing anyones problems but rather about embracing the unique lifestyle that you both have (which is why you would be at the gathering in the first place)
Well, if the intimate gathering encourages dumping normal ethical rules of society too much, I think it's a questionable kind of gathering, a bit like a cult.

I think normal therapy rules say you can't ever interact outside therapy beyond a basic, few sentence "hellos". I think once you know more about the therapist (besides the way they act while they are being paid), then you'll act differently with them.

You're not supposed to get to know them outside therapy because then therapy can't focus on you.

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Originally Posted by RTerroni View Post
I would say that it borders on it but it doesn't since in most intimate gatherings the normal rules of society are dumped in favor of other rules specific to the gathering.