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Originally Posted by Xynesthesia
I completely agree with those that say it's best to view therapy as a business transaction in which the client pays for professional services. It is not incompatible with having respectful, even friendly interactions at all, IMO. I don't see intimacy in therapy, to me intimacy is not merely talking about my personal things and not possible unless mutual and balanced - for me, therapy does not involve that.
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What exactly is the professional service?
I found therapy intimate in the extreme -- the sharing of deeply personal things, the seclusion, the focus on feelings. Totally unbalanced and unhealthy but was intimate nonetheless.
To me things get really weird when this kind of intimacy is put in context of a business relationship. It's this sort of mixed messaging that seems to really really mess with people's heads. Therapists say... you can trust me with your deepest secrets... but don't forget it's all business.