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Originally Posted by stopdog
"When no one is paying you, the patient will listen to you, because he will feel obligated. To help Bob, I have to be more controlling than he is. So I will talk to him for free, on the condition that he follow my directives, until he's able to leave L.A. I know how difficult it is for him to pay his bills. My generosity will shock him. Is this out of compassion and empathy? No. I love the intellectual challenge of banishing a stubborn symptom, in spite of the patient's efforts to hang on to it."
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At the beginning of the article she said that all therapy clients are "resistant," because they wouldn't "listen to the advice of friends and relatives," the theory being if they did they wouldn't need therapy. So I wonder why she thinks that once she no longer charges he'll "have" to listen to her free advice when he hasn't listened to the free advice of his friends. I think she's destined to "fail" again. Only now she's going to fail without getting paid.