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Originally Posted by Brown Owl
Thanks for that link Ididitmyway. I 'be had a look at it, I really don't know what to make of my T. She is very genuine. Is she misguided? That is the question I wish I could have answered.
Partless, I think she brought my mother in because it may be that my mother didn't understand me when I was a child. But yes, she is looking at my unconscious motive.
There are a lot of positive things about my therapy, but one of my problems with the therapy is I have been sleeping badly since I started, 9 months ago. Before I started I was sleeping solidly through the night.
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The point I make in my post doesn't mean that the therapist who invalidates the client's reality is a bad person or a bad therapist in general. The therapist may be quite a decent person and still do things that are not helpful because yes, they are misguided, as you say. They are misguided by their training that teaches many things and many methods that don't have any scientific backing and that often contradict common sense and basic emotional intelligence. Sadly, I've met more lay people who could listen better than therapists and who had enough basic wisdom to know that pushing their interpretations of the other person's reality doesn't help anyone.