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Old Aug 29, 2017, 11:24 AM
BudFox BudFox is offline
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Originally Posted by QuietMind View Post
A client like me gets deeply attached. "Loving" the therapist like a child loves a parental figure. But the therapist doesn't love the client back, not in any way such as parent-child.

Unrequited love hurts. Don't care if it's indicative of me having "emotional issues" or "pathology".
Unrequited love drives people to sui (immortalized in famous Goethe's novel). When it happens in therapy, it's even more destructive and humiliating. Could be like a parental and romantic rejection at the same time.

Also if a client is feeling rejected, but is also dependent on the therapist and so keeps going back, it could be like experiencing the rejection over and over. I found it was like having a weekly IV drip of poison.

Where else would rejection or unrequited love be used as an alleged tool for healing?
Thanks for this!
koru_kiwi, SalingerEsme