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Originally Posted by BudFox
I think Elkind is overstating things, but there is obviously a lot of truth in it. The parallels in terms of emotional dependency are pretty straightforward. I believe her clinical specialty is helping clients (and therapists) who have suffered through traumatic ruptures in therapy, so presumably she has seen what this looks like up close many times, and has good reason to say such a thing.
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I guess I don't see it. The extreme powerlessness children experience is not paralleled in any adult relationship. Adults have physical, cognitive and emotional abilities children utterly lack. They have money, transportation, and legitimacy to the legal system etc. I've had some awful experiences as an adult but never ever even in the case of sexual assault have I ever experienced the utter powerlessness of a child. The only situation that I could see paralleling that was if a T got a client hospitalized against their will.