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Originally Posted by RTerroni
No what I am saying is that I respected her point of view but I thought that my point of view was the best to maximize a Therapist-Client relationship, I didn't agree with a solid line I agreed with a progressively fading line, but I still respected her point of view in it (it seemed like she was trying to get me to agree with her point of view which I was not going to).
Plus I have said this before but most ethical codes are way out of date and even complete BS (this is not the 1920s or even the 1950s when ethics in society in general were much much different).
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This does not sound like you respected her view. You thought you knew better than her. Respecting someone's view does not usually mean saying your view is better than theirs. Have you also had psychological education and training and conducted clinical research and done studies of the literature in order to determine how to best maximize the T-client relationship? If you are not trained as a therapist, it seems rather difficult to substantiate this claim.
From your posts, it sounds as though you are quite young. Are you a college student? Do you know that in the 1920s and 1930s, it would actually be perfectly acceptable for a client and a T to live together, have sex, and otherwise have many dual relationships? Freud and Jeung did that with their clients. It is only SINCE then that these ethical codes have been put into place, in order to prevent the kind of damage that was done in the early days of psychoanalysis and other forms of therapy. The ethical codes are STRONGER now, because we know so much more about the T-client relationship after the fallout of those kinds of situations.