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Originally Posted by peacelizard
It's like that with my psychiatrist — very easy going — but not my therapist. I remember I had to read some paperwork on cancelations and rescheduling. Don't remember if I had to sign anything, but probably.
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Funny you should say that. My therapist is a psychiatrist, and I've wondered on occasion if his relatively flexible attitude towards scheduling and cancellations is connected to the fact that he's a doctor, since the kinds of draconian cancellation policies some therapists have would be totally unheard of in other fields of medicine.
He's also a psychoanalyst--so while some do have very traditionally strict scheduling policies, clearly some analysts manage to maintain both their livelihood and the therapeutic frame without charging for every missed appointment.
And I'm sure if I suddenly started canceling appointments he'd be curious about that and bring it up in therapy when relevant.