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Originally Posted by naia
Attachment was a psychoanalytic concept, but has now been accepted as science. T's are required to keep up with the field. They have to take classes or workshops to keep up. It's required to keep their licenses. So if a T has not accepted that attachment is part of therapy, then there is a problem.
This may be straying off topic from the original poster's questions. Not sure. Just don't think that what has happened is ethical or legal. Also don't think it is muddy.
Client abandonment is not OK. Doesn't matter if there are different points of view. If the client is in distress from the T's behavior, the client has a right to say something about it.
There are studies that say that the client, not the T, has a better sense of what works, what doesn't, and what the T is doing that is wrong. The client may not have enough information, but they still are more sensitive generally and are often not wrong.
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My therapist was all about attachment, and it worked for me...BUT, I will never believe Attachment the way Westerners in the psychological field define it is the only way to heal. I've also read where they are moving away from attachment. I think if the mental health profession gets bogged down into one size fits all, they will fail a lot more people, now and in the future.
As for classes, my ex H took "clowning classes" to fulfill his state licensing requirements in a Lala state I will not name. The bottom line for us was, what was the cheapest and most convenient for us as a family. His clients were not a factor in the equation at all.
And, with handheld media devices, many professionals are plugged into those when they sit through "licensing classes." A few years ago, I enjoyed sneaking or being snuck into their conferences when they had them at big hotels. They are not required to learn anything.
I agree with you that it is not ethical to abandon clients, but ethics are not laws, nor are they black and white, and I guess I would rather be dumped than hold onto something that is not working, and the therapist possibly becoming passive-aggressive in attempt to force me to quit. Them be fighting words for me, and we would probably still be going rounds. Thank goodness I was dumped, IMHO, and was able to nurse my wounds, and heal.
PS: Those therapist were not the originators of those wounds, and became a nonentity once I was enmeshed in the healing process.