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Old Dec 30, 2018, 01:26 PM
feileacan feileacan is offline
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I'm wondering what do you wish to gain from these questions? If the T you are going to see is psychoanalytically oriented (not just the psychodynamic mess that could mean anything) then the answers to the three first questions should be rather obvious. I can even make predictions:
- cancellation policy - close to none, you are responsible for your sessions
- between session contact - if you seem to need it then it means that you would need more frequent sessions
- how often - preferably at least 2, but also up to 5 times per week
I would be very surprised if the answers would deviate much from these predictions, or else the T is not really psychoanalytic. It's because these things are part of the frame which is very important in psychoanalytic therapy in order to make space for basically anything.

So, the only really relevant question is the last because whether or not you can agree more frequent sessions when needed really depends on how compatible are your schedules.

I would perhaps ask for theoretical orientation and I would expect to hear about relational and objects-relations. With background in emotional neglect you probably wouldn't want to see an old-school freudian also this type should be really rare nowadays and I doubt your current T would refer you to one. You probably wouldn't want to see Lacanian either, but although this type seems to be quite popular in France and South-America for instance, it should be also quite rare in North-America.

But I still think that the working hours is the most important thing because I think one of the reasons you got stuck with your current T is that you can't work more frequently with him.
Thanks for this!
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