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Originally Posted by starfishing
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.
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Yep, I agree (although perhaps not entirely for the same reasons), I would also hesitate to recommend psychoanalysts as a group. However, for myself, this is certainly a filtering criterion.