I didnīt mean a therapist should act like a friend towards a client but I exemplified how they act in relations to meeting with a friend just to show how constructed and unnatural their behavior is.
I've often come back to the humanstic and rogerian tradition when Iīve been given questions about what kind of therapist I think would work. I also always get back to the fact that we in Sweden donīt have a public mental health care system which offers several types of therapy and therapists.
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Originally Posted by Salmon77
True, they most likely do not greet their friends this way. But you are not a friend; you are a patient. It's a professional relationship. So they treat you in a more formal way and they stick to the scheduled time.
If you feel psychodynamic therapy is not for you, though, that is certainly your decision to make. What do you think might work better for you personally?
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