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Originally Posted by here today
All-in-all, conclusions that I can agree with as a possibility for some folks, based on my own internal experience of myself and my long experience with ineffective and sometimes harmful therapy. I certainly tried to participate with my whole emotional life. But maybe when the split is serious it needs some serious understanding -- something the therapists I saw, even supposed experts, seemed unable to do.
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I agree with you HT, that if this half-client creature exists, she needs serious understanding.
But I question the study's assumption that the failed client did so because she hid her weaknesses from the therapist.* Who goes to therapy to convince the therapist how strong she is? Isn't the point of therapy to talk about problems? I do feel it's impossible for a therapist to know much about the client's life, only experiencing her in one very specific setting. The rest of the picture is created by the client's description.
*That said, my therapists seemingly wanted to believe their magic worked and either denied some of my problems or painted a rosy interpretation to them. They were the ones who backed away.