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Originally Posted by stopdog
If others wish to believe therapists are regularly affected by clients, okay with me. I don't. I think they are not, are trained not to be from what I have gleaned from their textbooks, and I don't think they should allow themselves to be. If for some reason a therapist fails and is, then I, as the client, should I find out about it, would change to a better one for me. I certainly would not worry about the therapist. The only reason it would concern me as a client is because I would consider the therapist more flawed than I wanted to deal with. I would not consider it my problem to be concerned about the therapist-which is my bigger point.
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What you may have "gleaned" from textbooks is not enough to make blanket assumptions about people because of the line of work they chose. I'll now out of this thread now. I know you could care less about my opinion but I think it's important to know that things usually do affect people and it's sad and a bit disturbing that you believe Ts to be so uncaring. Maybe you've met some who are and maybe they are just *********s. Ts are trained to not let themselves be affected by clients to the point that it interferes with the therapy. It doesn't mean they are trained not to have human reactions. I know there are stereotypes about Ts and other professionals that always have an element of truth and can be funny, but some of what I'm reading here borders on being nastiness.