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Originally Posted by Perna
Don't know how one can know what another person's motives are, just what they look like to us and we're biased. If we think someone else is misbehaving toward us, we are the only ones who can query/stop/move away from that person if we check out our perception and see it is "right".
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good point, many times I have been in therapy and have felt my therapist was wrong, just trying to upset me, just trying to make me dissociate, and other problems...but that was just my perception. it wasnt reality. my therapist was actually just doing her job of making me face my problems and come up with solutions to my problems. but as therapy sometimes does it brings hard feelings and hard problems to the surface so the first reaction can be my therapist is doing this on purpose, my therapist is trying to hurt me. Especially is the therapist is not letting the client have their own way / not allowing them to hide/run from their problems.
the only way to know for sure whether its our own perception vs whether a treatment provider is actually doing something harmful and unethical is by having that treatment provider investigated by their supervisor and the states ethics board (speaking only for how its done in the state of NY.)