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Old Mar 14, 2007, 09:11 PM
pinksoil
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What type of body language shows up in your sessions? (Pertaining to both you and your T). Where do you sit? Same chair every week?

I will set the stage.... and the rest of you can follow...

In my T's room, there are three places I could sit. There is a chair off to the side, which would be funny if I sat in it because then I'd be facing the wall instead of him. Then there is a chair that faces him. This is the one I always sit in. Then.... there is the dreaded psychoanalytic couch. I have never laid on it. I probably never will. He has spoken to me about using it, telling me that it is a great facilitator of free association. I am scared to death of the couch, and told him I would rather lay under it on than on it. He told me that I could even try it in steps, perhaps just sitting on the couch, maybe even for five minutes. Yeah. Right. Anyway, so my T always sits back in his chair, and he's always maintaining eye contact. How I know this, I am not even sure, since I barely ever look at him. Normally when I talk to him, I am looking at anything and everything in the room except him. I normally fidget with something intently (either a coffee cup lid, a button on my shirt, my scarf, etc.), as if it's a freaking science experiment or something. Very mature, I know. But whenever I do look up at him, he's focused intently on me and when I'm telling him something important (ready for this? I love when he does this), he always has his hand on his chin, and he's kind of slowly sratching his goatee, like he's processing the information really, really deeply. I love it, I do. Pathetic, I know.

*Bonus Question*

What percentage of the day do I spend thinking about T?

a. 25%
b. 50%
c. 75%
d. 99.999%

Hmmm... I would say.... D? Sad. Pitiful. Ridiculous.