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i would, but if she started psychoanalyzing me, i would mess with her mind constantly.
It's always funny when psychoanalysis comes up like it's a common contemporary counseling procedure, when in reality, it hadn't been the standard for decades upon decades. It would be the equivalent of envisioning the standard physician experience to be that of a kindly older gent with a black bag of instruments who wears a head mirror and takes your temperature with a mercury thermometer.
I get that people use "psychoanalysis" colliquially, as a catch-all term for, I guess, mental health counseling as a whole, but really, it IS a very specific therapeutic approach that is largely in and of itself a historical artifact. While elements of psychodynamc theory have absolutely played a role in the development of current therapeutic techniques, you are going to be hard pressed to find practitioners of classic Freudian psychoanalysis in modern times.
It's semantics, but I am personally of the school of thought that there is significantly different connotation between "client" and "patient." Also, for accuracy's sake, I'm not comfortable calling somebody my patient unless I have a medical, dental, or optometric degree or licensure. If I'm not a doctor (excluding the academic designation, obviously) nurse, or tech, I don't have patients.
I've heard psychologists are wacky because they do it to fix themselves. I've considered pursuing the study myself and I'm a bit wacky too. So maybe two wacky people would be fun. I've only ever had one therapist who was a psychologist in study. When we got to the point of where I thought to myself, "I think I'm paying her to be my friend!" I had to end the sessions. I actually did like her as a person. Or at least the person she presented to me. But that's their line of business and they have to be good at it or not get paid.
I knew this guy who was divorced and remarried a marriage counselor. He still griped about his ex wife for years after the divorce, and he was always hitting on this one "crazy eyes" in the office. I'm thinking his wife wasn't a good therapist, or perhaps she was mere human like the rest of us.
Eh. Try it anyhow. If it doesn't work out, maybe I could get a couple free sessions. If not that, a good referral? If neither of that, then I'm not as wacky as I thought because it would be unprofessional of him to not refer me for help.
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