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Originally Posted by lolagrace
I certainly have never thought of them as super human, nor have I had a therapist ever consider himself that way, so I don't really see the double standard.
You are right: therapists are just like everyone else. But I don't see that has dishonest of hypocritical. They are trudging through life just like the rest of us and hopefully, through their training, can help us gain some insight into our own issues and needs, but that certainly doesn't preclude them from having their own issues and needs. I know of no one on Earth, who has life so figured out at some point, that they no longer have their own problems, that includes therapists.
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But we wouldn't go to therapists if they were just like everyone else. The assumption is that they possess skills or abilities that make them different, and the field collectively presents itself as such.
But if in fact they are not different and their needs can intrude on therapy, as one would expect from any human being, and the client has a pattern of abuse or trauma, and they are relating to T as a parental or authority figure, and the inherent power imbalance and asymmetry leaves the client vulnerable and exposed, and even minor transgressions on the part of the T can lead to serious consequences for a fragile client… well then I think there is a core dishonesty lurking there.
And for me it was not revealed until was I hurt, and hurt badly, by therapy. Prior to that, I simply did not give it much thought.