I LOVE this thread and always look forward to LT posting about the next session. It's such a fascinating journey unfolding and LT you've got such a lovely way with words . I also envy your ability to remember how the conversation went in such detail. I really wish I could write my sessions down but I come out in such pain and haze that I can only remember little bits here and there and how I felt.

I can see how you would find it useful to write it all down for you yourself to go back to it later. It's also quite useful to get other people's thoughts on it too. And it makes the painful part of therapy a little bit easier when you can share it. I know a lot of therapists would probably not like it - so what. Therapy is not exactly science where there's definite answers and methods to proceed that are the only right way. I'd like to see a proper scientific research conducted on whether the outcomes of therapy are better for people who share information about the therapy process with others or not.. I somehow doubt it would give a clear answer. And if it would my guess would be that the better outcomes would be for the people reaching out for other people rather than bottling it up and saving for the next session. But these are just my thoughts and I'm no means an expert. My therapist has gently suggested that it might be a good idea not to read so much about psychotherapy in between sessions. I'm not sure if this suggestion came out of her thinking it might help to ease the obsession or whether she would feel I would examine her techniques too critically. Don't think it matters. For me it's a personal interest (and actually kind of part of my job too) anyway and even though obsessing about therapy because of my own therapy probably complicates things, I'm still going to happily keep obsessing. Anyone who would like more reading apart from this forum should look up Irwin Yalom books - they read like a novel but are stories about psychotherapy.

Sorry the rambling..