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elethe May 12 2004, 02:25:15 UTC
This sounds awful. Is there any alternative form of therapy that could help?

I thought the whole point of therapy was to resolve issues (or deal with them) rather than create new ones :)

I did a residential counselling course a few years ago - and very soon realised that the sort of people who want to train to be counsellors are the very people who need a LOT of help themselves. By the end of the course it felt like I had been locked in some sort of asylum. Very stressful.

Maybe this analyst is using his patients to work through his own frustrations.

It does sound like it's turning into a bit of a power game.

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rainsinger May 12 2004, 04:17:34 UTC
This sounds awful. Is there any alternative form of therapy that could help?

I'm not sure, but I'm intending to hunt around. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) if it's on offer- my options are limited by the NHS or alternatively my success with finding something cheap enough for me to be able to afford.

I think (hope) there may be more places dealing with war-trauma now than when I was last looking in 2000.

I thought the whole point of therapy was to resolve issues (or deal with them) rather than create new ones :)

So did I- but clearly it was short-sighted and naive of me. ;)

It does sound like it's turning into a bit of a power game.

That's what I'm afraid of although I'm hoping that I am mis-reading him.

On a completely different note, would you still be up for going to see The Saddest Music tomorrow? And if so, meeting up when and where?

:)

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elethe May 12 2004, 04:29:54 UTC
Yes - still up for it. I believe it's on at The Curzon Soho at 7.10pm (http://www.curzoncinemas.com/article_691.shtml) so if we meet at the cinema before it starts (say 6.45pm?).

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rainsinger May 12 2004, 04:39:01 UTC
Terrific, that sounds good. :)
See you there at quarter to seven.

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meepettemu May 12 2004, 06:01:32 UTC
Your pic reminds me of one i took elethe :o)


... )

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elethe May 12 2004, 06:06:42 UTC
Is that a goat? Or a donkey? It does look like the doe in my pic, yes.

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meepettemu May 19 2004, 07:34:57 UTC
its a deer - masquerading as a "remote linking forbidden" sign!

;o)

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