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Originally Posted by sittingatwatersedge
not sure I would agree with this but it's something I ran across somewhere
“Therapy is an arrangement in which a patient pays a doctor some money which obligates the doctor to listen and keeps him from going away, no matter how badly he is treated or what the patient says to him. After a while the patient gets to feel guilty over the way he’s been acting towards this doctor. After all, even if the doctor is paid to listen and takes all the abuse, he is still a person. So the patient begins to look at how he acts and tries to be nicer to the doctor. And then after a while the patient starts being nicer even to people he isn’t paying to listen to him. And that’s what therapy is.”
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ummm i dont think I agree with this either. For one, call me optimistic, but I like to think that ppl who get into this field do it with some sincereity in the sense that they truly want to help people and not just take the patient's money and be abused in the process. It's kind of like saying...yeah for this amount of money you can come and sit and abuse me for x amount of time and x amount of sessions.
It also makes it seem like all patients go into therapy ready to rip on their therapists! I am completely not like that. I could never do that to her. Granted there may be some..what do you guys call it, which I have yet to experience? Transference or projection or something? But how often does that happen and to what extent???
I dont think I agree with it at all....