I can relate to this because although I was badly hurt by my former T, Iīve now and then thought about contacting her and ask her if we could try to start therapy again.
Sometimes it feels like things could be solved but my thoughts about it always ends up in what negative things she said and did and I put my thoughts aside about contacting her again.
Another example of a T who did more harm than good is one of the T:s I saw in evaluation. It was just a few weeks ago and just before she went on a rather long holiday she after only two sessions told me I should do a psychiatric evaluation. She talked about different neuropsychiatric diagnoses and I have never before met anyone that thought I have a diagnosis, noone in school, no therapist.
Then she just left me with that! She went on her holiday, I canīt contact her and she of course knows I donīt have another T to talk to while sheīs on holiday. I also think itīs very unproffessional to meet with a client for just two times and stir up a lot of thoughts about diagnoses. She isnīt within the psychiatry and she hasnīt worked their earlier on.
Of course she should have waited until she was available again after her holiday and we could then meet up and talk through things.
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Originally Posted by BudFox
There is also the matter of the attachment bond and the possibility that a client may try to preserve this even in the face of wrongdoing or incompetence. I found this terribly conflicting. Even now when someone begins to criticize my ex T, based on what i have reported, I can't decide if I should join in or defend her. In the past I would never have understood how unmet attachment needs from childhood, once activated in therapy, could affect one so powerfully.
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