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when the analyst treats a person as endlessly worth understanding and his or her suffering as worth feeling-together, this attitude of compassion implicitly affirms the human worth of the patient.... If, however, we are not too intenton naming pathologies and defenses or with being right, but instead relentlessly seek to understand and accompany the sufferer, an implicitly interpretive system emerges. For me, close and compassionate listening is itself an important form of interpretation....

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Sounds like the approach of a humanistic psychologist to me! If nothing else, it's very eclectic if this person considers herself to be an analyst. I love when people are willing to go outside of their box.

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its just the idea that therapy doesn't need to follow a linear course of 'first this happens and then this happens and then the next thing happens' such that if things don't happen in that nice orderly fashion then the client and / or therapist are doing something wrong. it just means... that therapy is different for different therapist / client pairs... and... there isn't a right way or a wrong way there is just an unfolding in whatever direction the process takes them in

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It's kind of interesting to me that anyone would think therapy would follow a linear course. That had not occurred to me. My therapy has not been linear and I didn't expect it to be. My therapist has shown no expectation for linearity either. (But he is a "systems" guy.) Now I'm really curious--do some people's therapists expect therapy to be linear?

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but now... remembering that... i feel kinda excited for him. and... it doesn't hurt so much

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Whoa, alexandra_k!!! I have never seen you say anything like that before. Woo hoo! I think things are happening for you during this long break from your T.