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Originally Posted by MoxieDoxie
I read this question on Quora.com a therapist answered with this:
"Firstly, if you are managing your transference you are doing it wrong: you pay a psychotherapist to manage it for you, your job is just to fall in love and speak in free association.
Secondly, your psychotherapist knows about your transference long before you and even provoked it so the treatment could begin. But this does not exempt you from talking about it - again, if you are not talking about your transference you are doing it wrong, as huge part of clinics is experiencing things under transference and letting it show - but again, it is the job of your psychotherapist to lead you to talk about that, that is why you pay them for!
Thirdly, issues of your treatment should be addressed in your sessions, and in your sessions only - not here with random unpaid strangers…
The part I was drawn to was therapist provoke transference. Do they actually deliberately manipulate you to bring up these transference feelings?
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This was the original question. I forgot to post it.
"Do I need to mention my transference in therapy if I’m managing it on my own? I find it embarrassing to talk about."
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When a child’s emotional needs are not met and a child is repeatedly hurt and abused, this deeply and profoundly affects the child’s development. Wanting those unmet childhood needs in adulthood. Looking for safety, protection, being cherished and loved can often be normal unmet needs in childhood, and the survivor searches for these in other adults. This can be where survivors search for mother and father figures. Transference issues in counseling can occur and this is normal for childhood abuse survivors.
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