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RE: Therapist Ethics - 7/10/2013 4:48:59 AM

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I think my friend relished the attention, and she couldn't grasp why I'd be perturbed.

What do you mean, she relished the attention?

The therapist is NOT behaving unprofessionally. Not at this point, anyway. You only have your friend's account of what happened, and I have a hunch she needs to feel superior to the others i the group. She may have misinterpreted or fabricated something about the therapist to bolster that.

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RE: Therapist Ethics - 7/10/2013 6:28:57 AM

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You only have your friend's account of what happened, and I have a hunch she needs to feel superior to the others i the group. She may have misinterpreted or fabricated something about the therapist to bolster that.

I suspect you're right about the need to feel superior, and that's why I think she relished the special attention of her therapist's making her more equal than the others by dissing them off the record. Misinterpretation is a definite possibility; I like to hope outright fabrication is not.

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RE: Therapist Ethics - 7/10/2013 7:53:41 AM

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dc, I didn't see in your post whether the therapist was male or female. I'm not clear on whether the therapist said this to your friend in private, or during group session.

Both my friend and the therapist are female.

The exchange took place during a private phone call between them.

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RE: Therapist Ethics - 7/10/2013 7:59:39 AM

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You only have your friend's account of what happened, and I have a hunch she needs to feel superior to the others i the group. She may have misinterpreted or fabricated something about the therapist to bolster that.

I suspect you're right about the need to feel superior, and that's why I think she relished the special attention of her therapist's making her more equal than the others by dissing them off the record. Misinterpretation is a definite possibility; I like to hope outright fabrication is not.

If the therapist said that, I'd consider it unprofessional. A therapist shouldn't be commenting on the mental state of one patient to another.

That said, I can see this happening:

While it's funny when you roll your eyes = she likes the way I roll my eyes!

It's possible that she heard what she wanted to hear and that she interpreted things to suit her needs. It appears that she craves attention from an authority figure.

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RE: Therapist Ethics - 7/10/2013 10:47:58 AM

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We have the same mom, somewhat it would seem. My mom is constantly over embellishing stories and portraying that she was the big bad ass in this tale, and nothing like it ever happened.

If she did indeed fall in the bath tub and hurt herself, every telling of the incident gets worse and worse, soon it was she fell and broke her back, and was in traction in the hospital, an then the next telling add onto that, then she had to have major surgery to fix it.

If she asked a question an the person ignored her, or didn't answer to her satisfaction an she walked off, to have her tell it she cussed him out an called him all kinds of filthy names, and really chewed his ass out an made him ashamed of himself.

A simple argument in her retelling turns into nearly a war between friends. etc etc.

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Are you sure your friend wasn't maybe thinking he said all of this to her when in reality he was maybe just doing the whole nodding head thing or not word things quite the way she thought she heard?

I'm sitting here thinking of my mom who does this kind of stuff. If someone is nodding to her, not in agreement but just in a listening sort of way, the next thing you know she's telling you all about how he told you to get the fuck away from those people, they're not good for you, yada, yada, yada. What someone says or does is not what my mom sees and hears. She basically thinks if someone is there listening to her then they obviously agree with her and the thoughts she's thinking are what they are actually telling her.

Over the years it's why my sisters and I have learned to never take anything my mom says at face value. It's rarely the real story.

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