Yes.



Sorry. But that's a good answer imo.

The therapeutic relationship is not like any other, and shouldn't be. When therapists engage in dual relationships the patient suffers, imo.

The relationship is built slowly...with each step being defined by the material covered? It is a very real relationship, but because we are needing it to be so many things our present life does not give, by that very nature is has to be different imo.

Not friend, nor spouse, nor sibling, nor parent, nor boss, nor employee, nor neighbor...yet some of all of this ... no other category but "therapist." IMO.