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Originally Posted by Lady Lindsey
I truly believe that trust is a two way street....
If you are expected to trust a T after over a year of therapy to finally get there.... is it unreasonable to ask your T if they trust you?
Shouldn't trust go both ways... if they expect you to trust them, why can you not expect them to trust you?
Opinions?
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In our everyday relationships, it goes both ways. But not in therapy. It's a one-way street. And the only reason you need to trust T is so that you can share very personal information with him/her. So trust is needed for therapy to succeed. Because therapy requires vulnerability and we don't want to be vulnerable unless we trust we are not going to get hurt. The T does not need to trust us and never do to the extent that we, them. That's why they have a bunch of rules about ethics and confidentiality that punish them for violating our trust. But it's not the other way.