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Originally Posted by Gavinandnikki
The non-disclosure of most phychotherapists (not CBT) is to encourage the development of transference, to varying degrees.
So that, during therapy, we project our pasts "issues"'on to our therapist and, in the best circumstances; "work through" these issues and enhance our functioning in our current life.
Some us do not want transference to develop, but that is, essentially, the function of non-disclosure, as I understand it.
Some of us are embroiled in various forms of transference in our therapy. Some of us, have no emotional attachment at all to our therapist
We all go to therapy for our own personal reasons. We all respond to our therapists in different ways.
Neither one is right or wrong, simply unique to the client.
My opinion only.
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This is really helpful. Thank you. I wonder if most therapists I've seen have understood it this way, as it seemed they were mostly wanting to keep their lives private than do anything therapeutic by withholding personal information.
I would like to know more about my therapist to gauge how her thinking is about the world and life. (Example: Her own worldview might inform me of how she interprets certain things I bring up that I can't share elsewhere--would she see them as pathological, spiritual, or something else?) As it is, she shares very little and it comes across as hiding. So, your thoughts are interesting to me.
The therapist I saw before this one withheld key things about herself that, had I fully understood, would have helped me decide to look elsewhere. Instead, she moved, and when she moved, she made things public about her practice that she had not before--such as she saw it as a ministry. This was troubling to me and, in hindsight, explained a lot of our disconnect, as we were coming at things from very different worldviews. She could not separate her religious passion from the way she practiced and saw my issues, and yet she never disclosed that to me.