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Originally Posted by BudFox
I find the topic of therapist self-disclosure to be utterly bizarre. In other close relationships, disclosure and vulnerability and openness arise spontaneously. In therapy the professional seems to be constantly battling to suppress their natural impulses in favor of some highly speculative theoretical model.
The defense of this is that it is an "art" and not a science. Still, it's all so convoluted. Therapy seems often to strangle all normality out of human interaction.
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For me, I don't think of it or see it as a close relationship. In fact, for me, it would not work at all if it was any sort of other than hired distant professional situation. I do agree that often therapists seem to be unable to refrain from acting like humans only to find it is upsetting to them when clients expect such a thing to continue.