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Originally Posted by here today
I think a lot of the problem currently is that not many therapists really do, or are trained for, the "blank slate" thing, which was an idea the psychoanalysts used and may still. Therapists who are trying to do something like repair people's attachments or something are NOT usually blank slates, I think -- which gets into the kinds of problems some complain about on this forum. And hence their own stuff -- transference or countertransference or whatever you want to call it, gets into the "relationship", authentic or transactional or whatever. At any rate, I think that has been true for me and my experiences in therapy.
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Enmeshment is the other end of blank slate. Perhaps any extremes are problematic.
The only ones who do that extreme blank slate crap are psychoanalysts, though many of them don't, their training is centered around transference. Less likely to "get in the way" with these types because they are separating it, doing what BudFox is saying is part of rhe problem. I think the problem is the opposite-therapists unaware of their transferences more likely to cause relational damage.
Agree that those being more blank slate and neutral are those not doing the reparenting thing.
Though the relational type of therapist seems to work for some here, like BB wrote about.