Wanted to share an interesting experience. Today in session at one point my T stopped and told me she was trying to deal with some countertransferance that was going on right then. She said she was feeling unempathic, cold, intellectual, arrogant, and disgusted with her feelings - just plain bad when I had been so emotional. She asked, "Does this ring a bell?" And I nodded. I said, "I'm trying to make you me." She asked me to "say more about that." So I told her that this was how I reacted to myself and how I treated myself. It was very interesting to see something like that - it was almost like I was split and I was the emotional part of me and T got to be the intellectual part of me for a little bit. Wow. It was very revealing - it made something I already knew become illustrated in a new context and it really was an eye-opener for her, too. I guess I was pushing T to repeat what I expect as a reaction while at the same time wanting something different. It was different all right - not what I wanted, but different and revealing.