[QUOTE=LonesomeTonight;6552384] From your earlier comment, I agree that your T's comment about clock-watching sounded critical. I'm also sort of a clock-watcher, but it's to make sure I don't wait too long to bring up a topic I want to discuss. Or, if I know there's only 10 minutes left, to consider holding off on something that would likely take longer to discuss. (Of course, I still end up bringing things up too close to the end--sometimes I don't realize they're a big or sensitive topic till I mention them or until T responds--but he wouldn't say I did that on purpose, I don't think.)

Like me, what you do is the exact opposite of 'clock-watching' which - according to definition - means being in a hurry to get off work. Like me you are anxious about time running out. I would think this is not very unusual, though I probably do it more because I am anxious, have a terrible sense of time AND a bad memory!

I worked before with another social worker who used a psychoanalytical approach and the dynamic seemed similar which is why I thought the approach might be the problem. It makes it sound as though I had (perhaps unconsciously) set the whole thing up for failure - Maybe the whole issue of unconscious motivation is the problem :/