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Originally Posted by clinpsycstudent
Thanks for the responses!  I think it would be a tricky situation to be in - I have had someone in authority of me (professor) whom I fell in love with, and no way did I expect her to have any feelings for me. But when the boundaries got blurred and her feelings were involved - things got very difficult. Wasn't expecting it to happen!
I am going to be discussing with this with my former T - just "counter-transference" in general. She bought it up very early on in therapy which I never initiated - so I feel she knew what was going on, but never talked about it.... until after I terminated :/
Should be an interesting conversation! |
So you terminated, and now you are getting together again to talk about your former t's counter-transference? Just trying to understand.
I would be interested in hearing from
my former t about if he experienced anything like this, but at the same time, sometimes these things really are better left unknown. One of those damned if you do, damned if you don't type situations. If the former t did
not experience counter-transference, that makes me unlovable/undesirable. If he
did that is difficult to accept and respond to. Because where do you go from there?
Does that make any sense? Glad you are exploring these issues regardless. Thanks for your post and the topic! And good luck with your former t, let us know how it goes- I, for one, am interested.
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