I've been thinking about mirroring. I half want to start a thread about it... I was reading about interacting with personality disordered partners - about mirroring rather than absorbing the emotional outburst. I used to do it with stbx - not at first, but after I'd been in therapy a while... It was hard to do, but when I was strong enough to manage it it had a very positive effect. It would calm him down, though he didn't exactly like it. Strange, because often it usually involved very loud and intense anger... It was like I took his toys away and left him with no options or something...
Anyhoo, I was wondering about this type of mirroring in relation to the therapeutic relationship. Toxic and/or abandoning therapeutic relationships in particular. At what point is it too much? I want to start a thread, this stuff really interests me, but I'm afraid it would explode all over the place...