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Originally Posted by elisewin
For people having something you call a rupture: What are they about? Either specifically or just in general, whatever you feel like sharing. I'm just curious what kind of things might cause weeks of sadness or anger (and still wanting to carry on therapy and find it useful and beneficial). Are they misunderstandings or disagreements or what?
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For me, it's something that makes me lose trust in a therapist and/or feel shamed by them. An example of the one I sort of worked through with ex-MC is that he granted me two individual sessions when I was first dealing with the transference. At the end of the second one, he said his door was always open to me (meaning if I wanted to meet individually again). A few months later, I was really struggling with transference stuff and asked about having a single individual session. He said no. I brought up what he'd said. He initially just said his opinion had changed on it. A few (joint) session later, he eventually said he'd realized the offer was a mistake as soon as he said it. (And it was an offer that had given me lots of comfort at the time...) So that made me seriously wonder how much I could trust what he said in the future, and trust to me is very important in a therapeutic relationship.