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Default Jun 18, 2021 at 08:39 PM
 
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I think that most of the therapists I’ve seen have been over confident about their ability to handle the complexities of the therapeutic relationship. I think that therapists should be more humble and that their first action in a rupture should be to examine and own their part in it, and that they should openly discuss that, as therapists, they will fail you in some way some, or maybe much, of the time. I’ve been reading some books about therapy recently and in the books the clients seem to be blamed for ruptures, and it seems to be assumed that therapists are perfect.

Books that therapists write about therapy tend to be just so much self-congratulatory drivel. It’s like a watching movie that you know will have a tidy, happy ending. I’m always shocked at how I can never find research that focuses on clients’ experiences of therapy.
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