I've tried to tell my current therapist about relational psychoanalysis. He said he did it-I insisted that he did not. He read more into it and admitted I was right. It's just extremely disappointing he couldn't adapt our therapy just a bit. A little bit would make a huge difference.
My last therapist was an analyst too, practiced much the same as this one, but did little things here and there that had a profound effect on me and our relationship.
So, I already know the type of therapist i need, I just can't find one right now. I've looked, there aren't many in the area and no one is affordable.
It just feels sometimes that giving up on therapy is giving up on me, in a way. But you're right, there are other things that one can do.
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Originally Posted by here today
I get this.
Give up on him, but not it's necessary to give up on you. For me, giving up on me is largely b/c there is no one who gets me, I'm all alone. Which is an old feeling from the family of origin.
At the current time, though, I found enough of myself in therapy and I see you and others here on PC who get me sometimes. I've gotten involved in an interest group on Meetup.com where there are some other people In Real Life who kind of get me and vice versa. It's not much. . .but. . .
People need other people. Family life in the last few decades has really f**d that up and therapy, despite its claims, is pretty insufficient to help us "heal" from that.
Not your fault.
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