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Originally Posted by PaulaS
Iīve been terminated a couple of months ago and it was against my will, I wrote about it in other posts her at PC. The termination was much due to my T couldnīt handle I questioned her and her methods and since then Iīve done a lot of research around termination and found that a lot of clients have done much "worse" things than I did and their T:s stayed with them anyway.
My T was in the psychodynamic field and I sometimes get the notion that a psychoanalyst is more patient and indulgent to their clients. Is there any truth to this? I donīt really want to go into psychoanalysis, much because of finances and also much because I want more of direct communication with a T. Having a conversation, being able to look into each others eyes when talking and so on.
But I of course fear that Iīll get terminated again if I show a bit of scepticism or if I question the T or sometimes donīt fully trust her.
Whatīs your experiences/knowledge on this matter?
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I have only seen psychodynamic therapists. The first two were not great matches for me, but neither one of them was ever impatient or cruel, and neither one gave the impression of being annoyed when I questioned them. My current psychodynamic T is the most patient person I have ever met - I have written about that before, quite often I think - and he welcomes questions and challenges to his methods. He is not perfect, but nobody is.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy has its roots in psychoanalysis. If the psychodynamic method did not work so well for you, I would perhaps think of looking into a behavioural kind of therapy rather than psychoanalysis. There is a reason there are different kinds of psychotherapy after all - we are all different. But once again, all reputable studies that have been published on comparison of different kinds of psychotherapy indicate that it is the match between client and therapist that is most important. That doesn't mean the modality is unimportant, but it does mean that different therapists within the same modality can be vastly different in terms of how well they suit a particular client.