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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
I do not feel that any of my therapists have taught me anything (except that it is foolish to trust therapists). Perhaps they helped me unlock stuff I already knew. (I have also never regarded the Huffington Post as the last word on anything.)
Although I have adopted parts of No. 3's email style for emails with students. It seems to make them feel like I care for them. So, OK, I learned how to hoodwink people.
You can learn a lot from other people, una is right. But people go to therapy for all kinds of reasons. Learning may be one of them, but hardly the only one.
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I agree. I have also used idiotic phrases the therapist has tried at me on students and I was amazed at how often the student takes well and how happy and reassured empty psychobabble can make them (and usually I do care in some ways - not always the way it is taken -but in some ways). If I wasn't so happy it worked and made them happier - I would tell them **** I just threw that **** out there - don't believe it for god's sake. What is wrong with you?
I have not learned anything from a therapist. I use the therapist to sit there while I talk about my very ill person. She was pretty much useless for most other things.
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Last edited by stopdog; Mar 19, 2017 at 02:55 PM.
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