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Originally Posted by stopdog
Do you believe she is doing it for real or just making them up? "I had a client once who did...." to make a point - does it matter if the client ever really existed? Does it matter if the client existed but the therapist only remembers this one thing about them and not their name or what they came for or so forth? Or that the therapist is not remembering correctly?
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My therapist clearly very specifically remembers past clients. It isn't just hypothetical or made up. It doesn't matter to me particularly one way or another, but he clearly does remember the ones he as brought up over the years. That does not mean I think he remembers every client or every detail about every client. A. I would think that is impossible, and B. I would have no way of knowing that anyway, and C. I know as a teacher that there are certain students I very vividly remember, by name, for certain reasons (that does not mean I remember everything about them--memory doesn't work that way).