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Originally Posted by Rose76
The therapist self-esteem is very bound up with believing that he or she is effective at what he or she is doing. So, if you go into the office saying "I'm not making any progress." the therapist is likely to go into super-defensive mode. The therapist needs to pin the blame for lack of progress on the client.
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You made some other good points, but the thing about self-esteem seems key. I guess this could be said of any profession, but therapists appear to be particularly invested in their life-fixer role, and go to pieces when it doesn't work out as they imagined it in their head. One of mine went into a panic upon hearing that I felt harmed, blamed me according to her programming, then just s**t herself silly.