i think that therapists should be sensitive to what is going on for the client and that they should be careful not to make assumptions either way.

it affects me significantly when my therapist goes away because i have issues with abandonment. it brings up a lot of traumatic memories and feelings for me but...

i don't want to talk about it.

not really. it is hard but... i need a little emotional distance both before he goes and after he has come back. it is a way of coping.

i can talk about it at other times... but not when it is around then. it is interesting, actually, that what i've been talking to my therapist about is letting ME set the pace more.

he turned out... to be respectful about that. let me prattle insessantly last session about my work and stuff like that. didn't push me... so next week... i'll try and talk about something that i feel vulnerable about.

i think that it sounds like what she is concerned with is enmeshment. therapists manipulating clients to meet their needs (my client loves me so much she can't cope without me!) etc. sensitivity and willingness to look at ones own %#@&#!.

t'was weird, actually. i was expressing admiration for David Lewis (he has a metaphysical view that possible worlds are as real and concrete as this world).

T said something about how... that must seem appealing to me... to think that there are more options than just what is happening in the present. opening up possibilities... sense of freedom... it was weird. i was thinking of it more as an example of what Bertrand Russel was saying (what we were talking about previously)

The aim of philosophy is to take something that is so crazy that no rational man could believe it...
Then show that it follows deductively from premisses that are so obvious that no rational man could doubt.

Possibilities... Hmm... D'ya think he would appreciate it if I got him a copy of "the god delusion" for christmas?