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Old Feb 09, 2018, 07:55 PM
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I was terminated ostensibly because i was not being helped. Eventually became blindingly obvious the real reason was the therapist could not tolerate failure or too much reality. She had joined a secular religion and nothing must threaten her belief and her self-image as a savior. Clients are important, but only as devotees. The other therapists were much the same. A bunch of need-to-be-needed types preaching the gospel.
For sure, this secular religion is true, at least for my T as well. There are rites and rituals aplenty, there is a confessional and there is ( he hopes) absolution. It something that draws me in and it is something that sets off alarm bells, at the very same time. I really don't know how I will look back at this period of time ten years from now.
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