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Default Sep 11, 2024 at 10:41 AM
 
To me it has always sounded more like the client is "very attached" or has a great crush than how I would define actual love in most of the descriptions I read about. That doesn't make it bad or lessen the feeling - I just believe therapists play a role - they act and appear very attentive to the client who often has not had that sort of thing and it is compelling. The client never really knows the therapist except in that one role. It is, to me, like people who are attached to celebrities or personalities and become extremely upset when something happens to them - the feelings are real but not actually about the celebrity -more about the imagined parts or the fantasy. I don't think therapists know clients as well as they profess to do either.

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