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Originally Posted by mindmechanic
Therapy IS very seductive. I am a schizoid. I am not supposed to be attached to any one human being.
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But then, isn't it great that you got attached despite not being supposed to get attached as a schizoid? So this therapy gave you a new experience after all, didn't it?
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Did you guys know that early psychoanalysts like Freud tried to make psychoanalysis free? There's even a book called Freud's Free Clinics. But now, therapists charge over $100 or $200 for a 45-minute session. It's just not the same.
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My knowledge is that Freud tried that but came to the conclusion that free therapy does not work. Money is not a simple thing and it has several functions but one of them is to balance the relationship - the patient depends on the therapist for support/expertise/whatever, the therapist depends on the patient for money. Also, people typically don't value things they get for free as much as they value things that they have to sacrifice something for.
Moreover, there are no free things in the world - if the therapist sees the patient for free then who pays for it? Because someone has to pay. Otherwise the therapist cannot see you at all because they have to earn a living doing something else.