I guess the question is whether a therapist has the right to set a conversational boundary or not. In social situations, that works like, "Hey, if you talk about X, I will remind you not to. If you persist, I will leave." Dr. T can't exactly leave, and if I remember correctly he doesn't believe in referring clients out, so he's kind of stuck here. You really can't control what somebody does or doesn't say.

In a way I'm glad I'm not as open as LT about the specifics of my therapy because you all would think my therapist had been thoroughly battered and deep fried by now, but she sincerely doesn't seem to mind. The core of my work has been built around a series of ruptures, some of which I have discussed so often that I'm sick of them. I think there are just a lot of ways to do therapy.