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Originally Posted by velcro003
I try very hard to stay away from these threads, for many reasons, but...to think there is some secret tenant between all therapists that transference is used to rationalize the therapy relationship as a whole seems absolutely ridiculous.
How do you get there? Sure, you read forums (as others have pointed out, seems a very small sect of the therapeutic population), and have read books, which I feel like you read between the lines to help support your thoughts on this entire topic.
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I think therapists rationalize and distort what happens in therapy by many means, and invoking the vague concept of transference is one of the primary means. I got "there" from what these people themselves have said (books, blogs, ethics codes, scholarly articles, videos, and therapy itself). I don't see it as a deliberate and malicious conspiracy. More like a bunch of converts to a religion carelessly and stupidly trying to convert others, while making some cash and trying to shore up their own emotional deficiencies... and almost completely blind to the carnage left in their wake.