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Originally Posted by Rayne_
I have heard of this and have seen this in therapists I know outside of my personal therapy. I think what this means is that being theraperized is having all the insights and knowing all the problems and being able to understand yourself fully and talk about it, but not living it. Kind of an outside observer of it all.
He certainly could have framed it better. It's not a sign of hopelessness-maybe a sign that he has a strategy to help long-term clients who are struggling.
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Yes, I kind of figured he was talking about the intellectualizing of it all. I realized over the last few days that I've not made as much progress as I had thought I had towards my issues as I realized I only "believed" the new ideas within the illusion of the transference and therapeutic space. When I thought about my T writing a report to my insurance to justify my number of visits a week (not something she has to do yet but might come up if I increase number of sessions), I realized that I still believe that she couldn't care about some one as messed up as me and that I still believe I am not ok.