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Originally Posted by starfishing
I've seen (good and bad, though mostly bad) therapists who worked psychodynamically before, but my current therapist is the first who's also an analyst. A lot of why I work well with him is doubtless unrelated to that--he's also a good fit personality-wise, and he has another area of expertise that's unusual to find that's important to me. But I also don't think it's a coincidence that he seems to have a much better grasp of countertransference issues than people I've seen in the past.
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I have only seen two therapists and both are/were fully trained analysts and both were great. Maybe I was just extremely lucky but to me it also seems that it is not just random - I think with someone who has "only" trained as a psychodynamic therapist, the risk of meeting someone who doesn't fully have their s... together is larger. Sure, I would rule out old-school conservative non-relational freudian analysts but these, I hope, are exceedingly rare nowadays anyway.
As from where I found these therapist - first was just luck because back then I did not know anything about analysis/analysts yet. For finding the second one I asked for a referral from the closest analytic institute.