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Originally Posted by QuietMind
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".
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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?