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Originally Posted by JustShakey
Of course, but they are human, and they can be overwhelmed. And part of therapy is learning appropriate expression of emotion.
By no means should you have to hold back the emotion for months or years, but letting it all go at once can be detrimental to your therapy - and yourself. Often people are very destabilized by letting go of everything at once. It's just too much.
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True Ts are human and can be overwhelmed. But a competent T should not be overwhelmed, it's their job to handle it, unless of course safety is threatened.
And if we let the T off the hook for being human, then nobody is accountable. And this leaves me with basic questions about the legitimacy of therapy. If the process can be undermined by the T's own insecurities or vulnerabilities in the face of a client's intense feelings, and the client is harmed as a result, then you have something of a trap.
This what happened to me last year, it was pretty traumatic, and subsequent Ts largely advocated for ex-T, using the same she-is-only-human reasoning. And my response to that is ok fine she is human, she is not a bad person, I actually think quite highly of her, but the outcome is still client harm.
Agree about letting go all at once being detrimental. Seems to be a core concept in trauma treatment -- careful management of catharsis.