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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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I read one of Elkind's articles, "“The Treatment-Resistant Patient: Psychotherapy Impasse and Consultation, Discussion” in The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol 59, No. 2, 1999."
I was turned off by the title, and definitely non-plussed by the article. The title definitely blames the client. I see why she uses infant/therapist, etc. She is promoting that labeling and thinking. Given her location she definitely gets paid handsomely.
ETA: The article states that the clients came in to relationships seeing the therapist as "fathers." She [Elkind] controlled the use of verbiage for the article, and advances it in her profession.