Low Energy Session

Great insight, CantExplain! It's gratifying for me, too, when I realize who I happen to be using T as a stand-in for.

Hope you get more quality time with the wife soon, and that you can find a constructive way to talk about teasing, and find a fun and mutually satisfying way to incorporate it into your relationship

You've got a point here. I don't think I could ever be that offensive, but who knows?

I agree. I think the line should be drawn at ad hominem attacks.

I admit I don't get the whole sexual innuendo (or not innuendo) thing with a therapist (a less erotic situation than therapy I cannot imagine - for me) and sometimes some of the descriptions by CE remind me of In Therapy with Paul and his therapist Gina and the new woman therapist Adele(?). It does seem somewhat a conventional take on male/female interaction where the man believes he has every right to comment on a woman's appearance, every woman is either a mother/virgin or lover/*****, and that the woman is going to care about the man's opinion of her. Also that the woman's appearance should be appealing to a man. Here it is therapy and presumably the therapist is willing to keep dealing with CE and it is being experienced as therapeutic by him. While not the way I do therapy (mine being somewhat hostile but impersonal to the therapist herself) (and the therapist I see does not blink about the hostility and has said it is good that I am letting her know how I feel) - it is no stranger to me as a concept than any other description people have of what goes on between them and the therapist. I would not put up with any number of things people on here do (and even see as evidence of caring or good professional behavior) from their therapists. But if it is working for that client and therapist, then have at it.

Wow. "cold eyes, unreadable mouth and non-performing hair. too thin, sexless and still." That's what CE SEES. It's not FACT. It's probably transference? It's more about CE than about T, everything we say in session is. Why is everyone assuming these are insults? CE can't read her mouth, maybe other people read it just fine. Again, if these are things CE needs to process, t is the place. I don't think he's doing it to be mean. He's talking about what is important to him. Maybe T is thinking, "finally! we're getting to blah blah blah."

I do like the "non-performing" hair comment as it makes me wonder what "performing hair" would do? Trapeze act? Stand up comedy? Sing?

I thought maybe transform into an artificial v*gina.

Seriously dude - ugh.

Does it have its Equity card?

preggo Adele...why'd they cancel that show anyhow?..it was just getting interesting. Talk about a T that was more screwed up then his clients!

I think anytime anyone on here gives details about their session it is open to a million comments/suggestions/advice/laughs/interpretations.... CE is happy and doing well with his T, more power to him.

Of course she doesn't want to hear that. But she's very sure of her own worth (she didn't seem at all upset) and she thinks it is important that I say whatever I feel.

Stand up, certainly. Hers hangs thin and lifeless against her head.

Interesting. I think there's something very Freudian about hair that can only perform when it's standing up rather than when it's hanging thin and lifeless.

For hair that PERFORMS... that's how they get men to buy shampoo! omg us women never even heard those words in the ads! it's openly subliminal cross-gender advertising! PH, you are so smart!

Hold on - "perform" is a word used about hair, it wasn't something CE made up on the spur of the moment? Interesting!

The original context was that T's hair was a "non-performing asset", ie something she had that she wasn't getting much use of.

It's an accounting term, suggesting that the asset is not producing revenue and should be sold off.

But now it's been mentioned, "non-performing asset" is pretty Freudian too.

FROM THE GOOGLE: ("pantene performance")

Olympic Swimmer Natalie Coughlin Showcases Beauty and ...
Jan 26, 2012 ... This sponsorship is a natural fit for Pantene (SHAMPOO) as the brand heritage is one of health and performance, ...

--- I got a lotta weird sht stored in my head

Thanks for indulging my weird cravings to talk shop

the pleasure was all mine!