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Originally Posted by BudFox
I think romantic has cleaner connotations, more palatable.
I find all of these terms endlessly disturbing in the context of therapy, espeically when "transference" is bolted on to the end. The client is induced/seduced into these longings, then forced to have a bizarre and often humiliating clinical discussion about it. My fav is "malignant erotic transference".
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Yeah, when you are putting very deeply personal feelings out there in this context, you really need them to be received in a respectful and thoughtful way and unfortunately that often doesn't happen. I do wish more people in therapy understood that these overwhelming desires for more clarification, more transparency, more disclosure and more security in that relationship, is often being caused or at least intensified by the way the therapist is treating them, and that they should not have to be feeling so confused and uncertain.