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Originally Posted by missbella
OP mentioned avoiding certain issues because the therapist "can't handle it" though I don't know how that was manifest in his case.
I know how my co-therapists' neediness was manifest in my case. Whenever I tried to discuss their harmful behavior, they responded with general gaslighting--shaming, deflecting, blaming. That's the frequent strategy of a bully or someone with something to defend.
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I guess with role reversal, I mostly mean like, when you as the client end up consistently being the one maintaining the therapeutic boundaries and treatment plan/goals/structure and trying to reconcile T's attempts or actions that bend these. But really I'd say it's any case where T is creating the majority of the emotional content in the room.