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Originally Posted by ElectricManatee
Maybe you need a relational therapist. My T is stoked to talk about the therapeutic relationship. Probably could do it all session, although I don't usually need to. She was just telling me on Monday that my intense attachment to her is totally normal and okay. Maybe it's some hardcore reverse psychology, but I feel calmer and less focused on her when she says that.
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I think that's the sort of thing I need to hear. Near the end of today's session, I wanted T to reassure me that all the attachment stuff was OK. He didn't. I suppose I could have asked for that... If I could know it's OK, that he's not freaked out by it, then I would feel much safer. I just get the sense he's kinda freaked out....or at the very least, uncertain as to how to deal with it. I mean, maybe when I see him, he'll say otherwise? I'm just trying to brace myself for the worst...
Maybe I should try to look for that sort of therapist that you see--even if it is a woman. Maybe if it's a woman who isn't my mother's age, I wouldn't have the negative maternal transference issues I did with ex-T...