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Jun 15, 2018, 02:40 PM
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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.
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