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Originally Posted by BudFox
If so i'm not clear what the client is paying for. Also much of the marketing promotes the image of therapist as sage or shaman, less flawed than the rest of us. I believe Freud himself conceived of the relationship as superior-inferior.
And owing to the therapist's inscrutability, the client has a difficult task in judging the truth of this or anything really.
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Well I think part of it is humility. My T doesn't market herself as a "shaman or sage," and easily shares her humanity with me. She knows she doesn't "know it all," but that she is an objective outsider to help me see patterns that maybe I can't. My T has said she has her own therapy for her "stuff," and has apologized when necessary, with no defensiveness.