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Originally Posted by BudFox
If the therapist frames it that way -- as a privilege to be taken away -- then I'd say it's basically a parent-child relationship and there are bigger problems than whether emails are answered. In my experience this kind of punitive, infantilizing language is the default when it comes to boundaries in therapy.
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I am a little uneasy with the notion of email as a privilege, and it's definitely not the way my therapy works. I use email regularly in my therapy. It's not a privilege- it's just a means of communication. I can't quite get my head around a construct that identifies one adult sending another an email as a privilege.
But my therapist and I are both probably a little unusually conscious of issues of authority and hierarchy generally and we both blanch at hierarchical therapy approaches.