Don't you have the option to just ask for another analyst? Around here, we have the right to demand someone else if we're not comfortable or feel like we're not getting good enough treatment.
I think I do but my options are severely limited. There are ridiculously long waiting lists here and from the time of my referral to my initial assessment was one year, and the time from assessment to first open therapy slot was six months. So to back out would mean going through that process again, and that feels poitnless but I can try other avenues.
It also occurred to me that there may be groups around now to help the Iraqis deal with post-war stress and that I may be able to get hold of some therapy through them.
I *think* that the psychoanalyst style involves relating things from the past to the presant (ie RIGHT THERE IN THE OFFICE) It could be that this approach just DOES NOT work for you. I know it wouldn't work for me, so I've tried to stear clear. Maybe cognitive, instead?
I think that is a good idea, and it's something I will make noise about to my GP unless there is radical improvement in my sessions with the other guy which I doubt it will. I think you are right and that the style is not one I particularly agree with
Oh, and if the guy is doing pure psychoanalysis, then he'll probably never do anything besides remind you when your time is up.
You could always put your watch in your pocket/purse/bag... but I'd bet good money that if you did, you'd find yourself in a 50-minute discussion on why you aren't wearing your watch.
You could always put your watch in your pocket/purse/bag... but I'd bet good money that if you did, you'd find yourself in a 50-minute discussion on why you aren't wearing your watch.
Yes. :) I could almost guarantee you are right.
We had a ten minute discussion about my choice of book Psychopathology in the Horoscope (Does a part of you feel like it's a psychopath? I think by bringing it here you are letting me know that you feel there are very dark places in your own soul;
Me: (start to say something but then realise that telling this guy that it was just the first book on the shelf would lead to another ten minute discussion about something ultimately pointless) )
My professional opinion is that this guy sounds like a complete selfish asshole. I'm sure you realize stuff I'm gunna say, but I know sometimes it's good to hear it from someone else
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I find him creepy because he does not acknowledge my witticism in any way except to say *I notice you are using humour again*.
I think his style is probably characteristic of Freudian psychoanalysis where the therapist interprets as everything being related to them (as the therapist figure, and the symbol of whatever I'm in conflict with) but I find it termendously irritating and unhelpful (I get along better with more empathic therapists- although I agree with you and think there is an amount of really bad shrinks out there who aren't there out of compassion, but out of love of dissection.
An asshole-test ought to be mandatory and it should have a *sense of humour* clause. :)
Thanks for sympathy, and replying and listening. :) I appreciate it.
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It also occurred to me that there may be groups around now to help the Iraqis deal with post-war stress and that I may be able to get hold of some therapy through them.
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I know it wouldn't work for me, so I've tried to stear clear.
Maybe cognitive, instead?
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I think that is a good idea, and it's something I will make noise about to my GP unless there is radical improvement in my sessions with the other guy which I doubt it will. I think you are right and that the style is not one I particularly agree with
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Thank you :)
I have been practising.
I think I'm going to try negotiating a switch to another style too unless things radically improve.
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Oh, and if the guy is doing pure psychoanalysis, then he'll probably never do anything besides remind you when your time is up.
You could always put your watch in your pocket/purse/bag... but I'd bet good money that if you did, you'd find yourself in a 50-minute discussion on why you aren't wearing your watch.
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Yes. :)
I could almost guarantee you are right.
We had a ten minute discussion about my choice of book Psychopathology in the Horoscope (Does a part of you feel like it's a psychopath? I think by bringing it here you are letting me know that you feel there are very dark places in your own soul;
Me: (start to say something but then realise that telling this guy that it was just the first book on the shelf would lead to another ten minute discussion about something ultimately pointless) )
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I think his style is probably characteristic of Freudian psychoanalysis where the therapist interprets as everything being related to them (as the therapist figure, and the symbol of whatever I'm in conflict with) but I find it termendously irritating and unhelpful (I get along better with more empathic therapists- although I agree with you and think there is an amount of really bad shrinks out there who aren't there out of compassion, but out of love of dissection.
An asshole-test ought to be mandatory and it should have a *sense of humour* clause. :)
Thanks for sympathy, and replying and listening. :) I appreciate it.
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