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Originally Posted by feileacan
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.
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Agreed, I think a lot of people who work (or claim to work) psychodynamically are undertrained and don't really fully have their s*** together to use the modality responsibly and well, without letting their countertransference run amok.
But I also hesitate to recommend psychoanalysts as a group, because there are some issues/situations around gender and sexuality where it can be very difficult to find a psychoanalyst who's equipped to deal with them in a non-pathologizing way. And because (relatedly) a fair number of psychoanalysts do seem to harbor some tendencies towards rigidity of theoretical approach, even ones who aren't extremely old-school in the strictest sense.