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Alexandra, I don't want to know much about my t's personal stuff either. Right now I view her as an object. Yes, an object. I feel horrid even thinking it. How inhumane, to view a human being as an object

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No! That's okay! It's the entire notion of object relations theory. The 'object' really translates to caretaker. In regards to the therapist, the therapist is an 'object,' meaning a blank slate to which you transfer and project your relational pattern onto. I personally do not believe that not seeing your therapist as 'human' is pathological. I have told my T that I see him as a blank slate, an object, if you will... this is how my work gets done. Of course he is a person, an amazing person.... But an 'object' in the uniqueness of the relationship.