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Old Nov 14, 2014, 07:11 PM
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has anyone's T ever called them out about transference or projection? last session my T told me that I try to make the sessions about her and that I need to make them about me not her . she said I could be talking about how I get confused sometimes about her and the mother. and asked if I could consider that my thoughts may not be based in reality. she didn't use the word transference and she didn't say that what I was thinking and feeling isn't real. she was not invalidating or anything like that. I think she was offering a reason why she doesn't agree with my accusations . she has used the word projection before to describe what was going on . I don't know if I agree with any of this. I do know how I feel and what I see and in reality it all feels like I say. it is hard to see things like she says. for the most part I thought transference was when you are in love with your T or idolize him/her. or negative transference is hating your T. I don't hate her I just feel like she hates me or at least she should. at times even other strong feelings .like she wants to punish me or make me miserable . but I don't hate her at all. I have no idea how to talk to her about these things because we end out arguing about it .
Yes T has called me out. T knows I have maternal transference with her. And has confronted me about acting towards her, how I would have towards my mother. Didn't realise until she put it out there that she was actually right.
I have been trying to (unconsciously - now consciously) pull T in to a situation that I control. T won't engage in this and questions me as to why I do this behaviour.
T calling me out often makes me mad, but then when I reflect and think about it, T is often right. Which also makes me mad haha.

Does your T actually argue with you, or is that the context you have put it in? I could have said that T argued with me about a certain thing last couple of sessions, but in reality she stood her ground and I was the one trying to argue with her. While she questioned my motives and held her own ground.
Kinda like a teenager picking fights with their parents??
Thanks for this!
JustShakey