Are You Watching "Gypsy" On Netflix?(about a therapist)

I'm intrigued by this statement, as it's so different than how I think. I tend to think most people are really interesting, with all sorts of unique problems. And I always suspected a lot of therapists are therapists in part because they find people fascinating. And it's never occurred to me that my therapist would think my life is boring. I'm pretty sure my life is at least as exciting as his.

Anyway, that's why I find these forums so useful- so many different perspectives!

I was hooked too, as I haven't found anything that captivated me on Netflix for a long time. I was happy that House of Cards, Scandal, and Orange and Black came out-but I started to watch episodes of all 3 and could never stay interesting long enough. All 3, which i liked before, seemed to have gotten boring and poorly written. I tried to watch them a few times but just gave up.

In Gypsy-I'm surprised people say Watts' character is more ordinary than not. She seems highly disturbed to me. But maybe I am dramatizing her features due to past traumas of someone with her qualities. I get highly triggered by people with those traits IRL but love psychological thrillers and for some reason don't usually get triggered though I have in the past.

The show seems a bit sexualized, so I wonder if people are focusing more on that aspect. I didn't anything disturbing or dysfunctional in regard to the sexual components; to me, it seemed to be on of the few aspects of her personality that seemed healthy to me.

I didn't pick up on her being ignored, not sure what you meant. Anyway, the show isn't really about therapy, I came to find.

Escape from her own reality is a good insight...then I thought-she has no real identity and her reality seems to align with fantasy and obsessions; it almost has a delusional quality, a non-reality. That's one aspect that seems fascinating to me as it the complexity plays out so well in the script.

Probably not all their clients, but I think they would be that interested in some like anyone else. Some people have become obsessed with me (not therapists though) over the years, and I don't think Ts are less prone to those behaviors than others. Plus I've seen some crazy stuff here, leading me to picture a T googling their client.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...ng-not-therapy

Therapist gets snotty about their job

Lot of grandiose language in the therapy part. Multi-genre dance archeologists?

I forgot to add -it is a link to a therapist talking about the person in Gypsy being a bad counselor.

Thanks for sharing that,I found it very interesting.I wonder how many members here think they're in therapy when in reality it's counseling instead.

I think the distinction is not as fine as the author would have us think.

Perhaps the author needs to go back into counseling or therapy or so to find out why she has such a need to be superior to others who claim to be doing that collective nebulous job.

But perhaps it's good for those who hold therapists in high esteem to see that those people are just as prone to envy, hierarchy, and elitism as anyone else

Thank you for posting this Stopdog. Lo don't know about the states but here in Ireland this is a hot topic. They are beginning to introduce statutory regulation in counselling and psychotherapy. Before the two terms were used interchangeably and were not distinguishable. A graduate who did a two year part time diploma could call themselves a counsellor or psychotherapist but now they are saying that to call yourself a psychotherapist you must have a masters. I think that's ridiculous because you can have a masters in CBT and that would not make a psychotherapist. To me a psychotherapist has done a lot of training but also experiential work on themselves, been in constant therapy and supervision and look a lot deeper then counselling. I agree with the author, the therapist in Gypsy is a terrible counsellor.

Thanks for the viewing suggestion. Checking it out now.

I'm on the last episode and I feel disappointed.I was hooked and thinking all the previous episodes were leading somewhere but now I feel like they're not.I stopped watching,have lost interest and will have to force myself to finish this last one.

What have I learned from this show?Just because someone is a 'professional' doesn't guarantee they're not completely f**ked up and can do more harm than good.

I finished watching the last episode.I'm disappointed with how it ended.

Disappointed after finishing the last episode.

Odd that the blogger said the reason it wasn't therapy was because it was counseling. I thought it didn't look like therapy, not because it was really counseling, but because it was a disturbed woman acting out and manipulating her clients. I don't see how it could have been portraying anything therapeutic. I thought that was pretty clear. Hmm...

I just finished too. It seems to have been made in preparation for another series. Too bad that by the time the next one comes out, if it does, it's hard to remember the plot. It got pretty high ratings on IMBD, which is the one I go by, but I saw what others wrote about low ratings.

One thing in the last episode that was interesting:

I really enjoyed the series including the last episode. So tense.

In my experience, there's a big difference between counseling and therapy. I don't have a problem with a professional making an important distinction. I do think it takes time to understand how therapy works, though, and it's a total fustercluck if someone who is more of the counseling variety steps outside their own boundaries/abilities and gets in over their head.

I guess I just wanted the season to end leaving me feeling like omg I can't wait until the next season comes out.I don't feel that way,I would probably watch another season but I definitely would not be binge watching again.