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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight
For the record, I'm apparently his first client (in 17 years) to ask for a transitional object. So today, I mentioned how I'd felt really sad the other day and held the
I wonder if it's because it's the first time he's given a transitional object (he did have a client steal a stone and tell him about it later), he's just not sure how to respond? Or if he's just uncomfortable with my attachment? So, just wondering how other people's T's have reacted. Unfortunately this came up near end of session, but will discuss with him more Monday, because of course my brain is focusing on the "10% weird."
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Because of the forum, I think we are really savvy clients, and we know about things like transitional objects maybe even more than T's who don't practice that way.
Your new T seems pretty composed and flexible, and perhaps a bit bemused by the TO.
I would suspect his 10 percent weird comes from a client knowing so much about what others do in psychotherapy, then from an intimacy issue.
If I asked my T for a transitional object, he would ask me if I wanted the upper hand or if I read that in a book. (If I asked my T, it would actually be bc I read about it on the forum, and am wistful to have one
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