Dear Piaf,

Oddly, I feel sorry for you. You want to say emotions are unimportant in therapy. You want to say that there is no therapeutic relationship. While I put less value on those things than others do, they still exist, at least a little. You want to deny their existence entirely.

But when you get angry at me and say what you said about how my hearing makes me a difficult and exhausting client, you are admitting there are emotions and there is a relationship. Your cognitive dissonance must be maddening (provided you are self-aware enough to realize it).

ATAT