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Originally Posted by skies_
Sometimes referred to annihilation anxiety--very object relations-y. The child can't direct anger at the parent and either doesn't process it (ie. dissociates) or direct anger at herself because she is afraid of destroying the parent. (Symbolically, maybe this means the child's anger makes the parent go away/reject/abandon).
Great thread!
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This. And let me tell you, when your T can't handle it and becomes your projection it's utterly crushing. As I'm sure many on this forum know, it can destroy you. I *did* become that sweet nice client showing up to therapy to make her T feel good. If not for pure luck and a couple of caring professionals who were paying attention I'd be worse off now than when I started therapy.
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At poor peace I sing
To you strangers (though song
Is a burning and crested act,
The fire of birds in
The world's turning wood,
For my sawn, splay sounds,)
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Dylan Thomas, Author's Prologue
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