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Someone asked me recently if i was wanting/having a fling with my T because i said i adored him. That intrigued me... not having a fling, but that it would be seen that way.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">It is hard for me to understand the therapeutic relationship myself at times because it is unlike any other relationship. It is deeply intimate yet a professional fee-for-service arrangement. It's not easy for those of us in therapy to understand, so I can see why people who have never been in therapy would not understand. I tend not to mention my therapy much to anyone who is not familiar with therapy. They wouldn't get it. I remember about 10 years ago a friend of mine began seeing a therapist. He wanted to talk to me all the time about this. I could not understand why he was suddenly so obsessed with this! Yes, I could see it was a good thing in his life, but I was just not getting the intensity of his involvement in the process and with his (female) T. Ha, ha, now I get it!

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i know this kind of thread bothers some people on a deep level. i am not sure why.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">That is interesting--when I posted I didn't think people would be bothered by this. It seems a common topic here.

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sunny i really like that passage... so much in fact i am browsing the online bookstores and www.thinkingallowed.com

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">Thanks for the tip. I am browsing there now too. There are lots of great interviews there! I think the host of the show has a great job--interviewing all these fascinating people. I need to do that for my job. I liked the Bugental interview and that quote I posted enough to want to read more from him, so I ordered this book: Intimate Journeys: Stories from Life-Changing Psychotherapy. I'm not sure why I chose that book, as it is not Bugental's most famous or significant work. I guess I just like "stories."

Jello, I liked what you had to say about communities and the Israeli kibbutz. I like the idea of incorporating healing into the heart of the community. This reminds me of more "primitive" societies and the important role the shaman or medicine man played in the community.