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Xynesthesia2
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Default May 26, 2019 at 04:31 PM
 
I think psychoanalysts are often especially prone to that. After all, if the client had okay childhoods, let alone mostly loving, supportive parents, they have no work to do as that kind of therapy is so focused on early life adverse experiences. I had arguments over this with my own psychoanalyst, even told him what he was doing (trying to twist things to convince a client that they were neglected, abused etc) could potentially be quite damaging if the client buys it. It can sometimes be illuminating to point out stuff someone is denying but there is a difference between that and projecting things into someone else's life that is not there or is not an issue for that person. My ex-T did this frequently and at the same time often ignored the real problems and some of the most useful insights I had, because they were not in the framework of his preferred theories and explanations.
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