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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
But who or what are you trusting? When I had surgery this fall, I didn't so much trust the surgeon as that a) there would be other people in the OR to observe and correct any wrongdoing, and b) there would be legal and professional consequences for the surgeon if she made any mistakes. I trusted in her skill at surgery, sure, but I did not trust in her innate goodness as a human being (or whatever); I trusted the apparatus in place to make her behave a certain way.
It seems like a lot of trust placed in therapists is placed in them as a person, not regulations governing their profession, and I think that is one source of their perceived power.
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Yeah, the trust I placed in the doctor doing my c-section (and the anesthesiologist and others helping with the surgery) was different than the trust I place in T and marriage counselor. It was for a very specific procedure. I mean, yeah, she saw my insides and basically held the life of me and my daughter in her hands. But it's somehow different than the trust I put in a T to hold my emotions and all the stuff I share with her.