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Originally Posted by ruh roh
I wanted to say that I understand better now what you've been referring to with your sense of counter transference. Although I wouldn't call it that in my case, when I brought this up to my therapist after the death of a prescriber, she also changed how she was. The difference was that she told me that she'd was reeling from three big losses and it would be some time before she could get to making plans about her own sudden death or incapacitation. So in my case, I knew what was behind the change.
Maybe it's the topic that made your therapist get lost in herself a bit (if that's what it was), and not any kind of counter transference--so, more topic-related than you-related?
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Yeah, which is why on the other thread I've kind of moved away from the concept of counter transference. If I was to say what was going on for her, I would guess that something happened to her between the first time we talked about this topic (9 months ago) and this conversation. I got the feeling that she was there and not really with me but at the same time with me in a different way. That emotionally she was feeling what had happened and that was impacting a little bit on how she was relating to me on the topic now. Not sure if that makes sense.