hmm

I had a 90 minute session with my T today. Not because it was scheduled, but because he happened to have a cancellation the hour after mine. He told me about it five minutes before the end of my session, and gave me the option to stay for another hour if I wanted. I told him I could stay for part of it, and it was probably the most valuable session I have had with him since I started with him in August.

I wonder if 90 minutes sessions are what I need. I think I'll give it some time to figure out.

vienna.

I often wonder if having double sessions would help me open up more. It takes me half the session and sometimes a full session just to get comfortable there. On the other hand, most of the time I run out of gas even before the 45 mins are over and ask T is it time yet. Not sure how I would fare in a 90 mins session. Hmmm. Plus my T is very by the book, he follows a psychoanalytic orientation. Even if he had the hour after me open, I'm not sure he would offer me to stay. Vienna, good for you

my T often goes over the hour - bless her little cotton socks! its usually at the end of the hour when I have got to the stage of being able to talk and the last 10 or 20 mins is when we seem to make progress

glad you had such a good session

i have a double session every week...it seems to work the best for me...plus it gives all my peeps a chance to get their $0.02 in if need be!

plus since the slightest thing can cause me to drift off into the nether regions of my brain the longer sessions give me (and her) time to explore where i've gone and why i've gone

I'm glad that other people have posted to say they sometimes (or often) go over the usual 60 minutes - sometimes it is just too difficult to get down into the hard stuff and come back to the "real world" in just 60 min - I wish my T would give 90 minutes but she doesn't, she does 1 hr or 2 hrs.

The thing is that I see her every 3 wks usually, and so in a year and a half have had only 15 sessions and it seems to be taking forever.... I asked her this week, if I see you every day for three weeks, will I be fixed?

She said "no"...but at least she smiled when she said it

T and I have talked about 90 min sessions. When I have had them, I have made HUGE progress - because I am much more willing to "go deep" when I know there is that extra time to put myself back together.

We talked about doing them for one of my sessions each week, but I could tell T wasn't sure that was a good idea. Probably because of the month of taping me back together that comes after one of those sessions...