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Originally Posted by puzzle_bug1987
I personally think it is a horrible idea and really question why any therapist would attempt this. I had really traumatic childhood and it is NOT something I would want at all. How does it end? I just can't understand how it can end well. Eventually therapy will end and the therapist will be gone and it's assumed (I suppose) that by the time this happens the client will be healed enough to not need or want the therapist anymore, but I just cannot see how that would happen. How can you just not have someone in your life like that who has played that role? How will that not also be traumatic and painful?
I think it's awful. Hope it works for the people who try it, but I've seen it end badly here many times.
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Just like kids grow up and leave home and don't rely on their parents anymore. They visit, for sure, and in my opinion a T is for life and you can go back if you need to, if times get hard. When a healthy adults parents die, of course they miss them, as I would miss my T if anything happened to her, but they don't normally let it ruin their life.
That is the aim with this type of therapy. To meet those needs, to develop emotionally and be able to move on eventually. I really do think it takes a skilled and generally decent therapist and of course the right type of client.