What is helpful in therapy?
Sue Wiggins
I am really interested in what experiences people have helpful when
they have received therapy. In fact I am so interested I am basing a
whole PhD on the subject. Anybody can take part and it is bona fida;
it has been granted ethical approval by the NHS and my uni (University
of Strathclyde). Please take a look - it is completely anonymous.
www.surveymonkey.com/therapyquestV2.
If you want to know more about me please just ask
spwi...@googlemail.com
Sue
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Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
> Dear all,
>
> I am really interested in what experiences people have helpful when
> they have received therapy. In fact I am so interested I am basing a
> whole PhD on the subject. Anybody can take part and it is bona fida;
> it has been granted ethical approval by the NHS and my uni (University
> of Strathclyde). Please take a look - it is completely anonymous.
>
> www.surveymonkey.com/therapyquestV2.
>
> If you want to know more about me please just ask
> spwi...@googlemail.com
there's a whole literature out there on therapy outcome and and on how
to conduct relevant research. maybe take a look at that, too?
--
Rolf Lindgren
http://www.grendel.no/
Whistlefish
My therapist told me she was feeling some sort of physical transference.
To the extent that she was getting odd feelings in her ears - I said
that I have problems with my inner ear pressure and have to pop them a
lot. I also said that I see floating spots (from an old eye injury) and
she said that she saw one too when we were talking about it.
She said this was a form of transference and that this happens...
I think it's all rather weird and a bit too new-agey. This kind of thing
has not come up before and I wonder if she's trying to throw me off
balance a bit...
I said I find all the stuff about auras etc to be incompatible with the
way I think... We didn't talk about it much more but I think it may
have damaged the relationship a bit - from my point of view at least!
What do you think?
Tim McNamara
Whistlefish <sc003takem...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello there, new to the group and thought I'd share this/ask for
> comments...
>
> My therapist told me she was feeling some sort of physical
> transference.
> To the extent that she was getting odd feelings in her ears - I
> said
> that I have problems with my inner ear pressure and have to pop them
> a lot. I also said that I see floating spots (from an old eye injury)
> and she said that she saw one too when we were talking about it. She
> said this was a form of transference and that this happens...
>
> I think it's all rather weird and a bit too new-agey. This kind of
> thing has not come up before and I wonder if she's trying to throw me
> off balance a bit...
>
> I said I find all the stuff about auras etc to be incompatible with
> the way I think... We didn't talk about it much more but I think it
> may have damaged the relationship a bit - from my point of view at
> least!
>
> What do you think?
I think I've worked in mental health for 28 years and as a psychologist
for 19 years, and I've never seen this kind of transference (well, more
properly, countertransference). Sounds odd to me.
I wouldn't toss the therapeutic relationship solely for that reason, so
long as the counseling is otherwise helpful. But if things like auras
and other new-agey things put you off, she should stop talking about
them with you.