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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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BudFox, this is the post i was thinking of when i wrote my last response although i quoted another by mistake.
If a therapist lets themselves be vulnerable, which would mean increased intimacy, that comes with needs. Need to be accepted, need to be liked, need to not be rejected, etc.
People are damaged everyday because someone else acted on their impulses. I don't understand how that can help therapy. If you know of a way this can help the therapy, i'd be interested.