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Originally Posted by comrademoomoo
By understanding your alignment in the therapeutic relationship, you can understand how you relate to others in other contexts. This is a fundamental aspect of my therapist's modality and I have grown to really appreciate it.
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I don’t think that’s actually different from what I said. I just said it in pragmatic terms.
And even under that modality the goal of the therapy is still not to form a relationship with the therapist. The relationship is still in its origins artificial—not in the bad-sense way of fake, but in the good-sense way of like making graftings on plants to help them grow. The goal in that scenario is to understand your relationships with other people, not the ones with the temporary help.