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Originally Posted by BayBrony
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.
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Maybe we are down a rathole. The point for me is simply that therapy can induce an emotional dependency that parallels in some ways mother-infant. It's not a particularly controversial notion, since it's all over the literature. And this necessarily means a major emotional and psychological power imbalance.
I experienced it firsthand. This forum and others are filled with accounts of people who are clearly in that place. What is also troubling is that therapy dependency is not always recognized or named, and does not arise or progress in ways that are necessarily natural or healthy. In my view and experience...