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Old Mar 29, 2016, 12:49 PM
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Originally Posted by atisketatasket View Post
If therapists don't want to be seen as saviors or omnipotent or above everyone else, they should not present themselves as such. And many clearly do. Not all, sure, but I don't think there's any question of where the idea of high expectations for therapists/therapy comes from: themselves.

(Also, no one is saying that a client who threatens a therapist's safety should not be removed as a client. Unless I missed it, even the therapist in the article doesn't express concern for his own safety.)

Exactly. A problem that I see is that those guys try to have it both (or more) ways. They want to be godlike saviors until it is shown they are not -then they get pissed at the client who has exposed their all too human foibles.
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