I can relatively easily tolerate conflicts (in general, not just with Ts) given that everyone involved shows reasonable fairness and is willing to look at their contribution to it and we can arrive at a collaborative solution and then we all work on maintaining it. The "rupture without repair" with my first T was when we repeatedly ran into very similar types of nasty conflicts, but he only wanted to look at it from the point of view of my contribution and history and completely refused taking and voicing responsibility for his part. I allowed that to continue for a relatively short while twice, but refused turning my therapy around and making it all about "us" while originally I did not go there to work on relational stuff, I had more practical and discipline issues I wanted to improve. I was open and willing to expand my interest and investigate relational stuff to a certain extent but (as said before) I personally found that as huge distraction for me rather than useful work. Anyhow, I would have been interested in working on and resolving interpersonal conflicts with a T but only in case it was a mutual, a collaboration, and not just throwing all of it onto me. The "rupture without repair" occurred in my case when my T was consistently close to that and yet kept making the same errors that I could no longer tolerate and my original goal got totally lost in useless rounds of personality clashes and fights. Such things rarely happen in my everyday life so it wasn't even like therapy brought out something useful to investigate - it was simply a crappy T and a crappy client-T combination.
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