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Originally Posted by peaches100
Despite all of the great progress I've made and everything I've learned, this is by far the most difficult thing about therapy for me. Each time this happens, I get the feeling that I'm back at home with my mom as a child, needing her presence, her reassurance and protection, to not be alone and scared...but I end up feeling just that way.
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As someone said, therapy relationships can amplify abusive or neglectful dynamics. Someone also referred to the "covert sadism" of therapy. Playing games with inconsistent email responses is rather sadistic.
The other thing that jumps out here is that you are a client paying a professional for a service, and yet she is in control, determining how you feel, dictating terms, yanking the puppet strings.
What are you meant to learn from this? How to be in a relationship with a manipulative other?