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Originally Posted by stopdog Granted I was more focused on the part where the therapist noted the client rejected her interpretations - like it was a surprise. Do they really think clients find their interpretations super dooper?

Some clients actually find interpretations useful. But I think it depends on the therapist truly listening and offering good, useful answers. For example, my therapist doesn't normally give interpretations, but when he does they're usually quite insightful. Not always, but usually. If I saw a therapist who gave inappropriate interpretations that just didn't have anything to do with me, then I'd dismiss those.

I was mostly interested in how the therapist and client related and worked together, and at the end about the therapist's reaction to the news (what it meant to her, how she handled the news, what she did). I found it interesting that she posted fragments of his poetry in the article.