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Originally Posted by stopdog
I don't get not being equal to a therapist. Certainly the roles are different, but why would one not be equal to a therapist? The therapist is not better or smarter or more adjusted than I am. I don't imagine she lives a charmed life. She does not know more about me than I do. In what way would I not be at least her equal?
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I agree. I don't feel inferior to T as a human being ... at all. If someone compared us in different categories (education, personal wealth, physical attractiveness, fashion style, ability to speak in front of people, sense of humor, etc etc etc), he would come out better in some, and I would come out better in others.
But in the therapeutic situation, I am the one asking for help - and paying for it. He is the one that is providing that help, utilizing his education, training and skills in psychology. I don't really consider that that makes him "superior" to me, but it does create a r/s where he has more "power", if you want to look at it that way. But it doesn't make him better than me.
And I find his taste in music to be atrocious ....
