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Old Feb 07, 2016, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Bipolar Warrior View Post
My private therapist has an integrative-relational approach, and says that her work is all about the "relationship" with the client. Yet she is very much a blank slate.
This the paradox and the tragedy. The relationship is the key to healing, yet they expect you to have a relationship with someone who offers nothing of themselves. The idea is that you can bring all your bad relationships into the room and work on them there. But in the end, there is no real relationship with the therapist. When you run out of other relationships to work on, there is nothing left.

The therapist is the only one whose personality is not in the room.
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