Over the past few months your therapist has put on weight. All around her middle. In the back of your mind you are thinking, “For goodness sake, go on a diet, and get some exercise.” At the rear end of the back of your mind an idea is forming that is so reprehensible it gets snapped shut before its presence is fully comprehended. For some even when your therapist is nine months pregnant it is possible not to acknowledge what is blindingly obvious. Your therapist is about to have a baby very soon and it’s not you.
My therapist had children before I started seeing her so it has not been an issue for me. What was an issue was when she got a pair of dogs and I thought they were getting more attention than I was. And I was right; they are a pair of pampered pooches. Thank goodness she was never pregnant when I was a client. I would not have handled it well.
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Sonia: Thanks for this blog. It is a valuable glimpse of a patient’s perspective of a therpist’s pregnancy. Many years ago myself and two colleagues( all pregnant therapists) documented our observations and feelings and wrote a book that will offer the view from the therapist’s side. You and readers may find it intersting.Title: The Therapist’s Pregnancy: Intrusion in the Analytic Space by Fenster, Phillips and Rapoport.http://amzn.to/bErYDv
Thanks, Suzanne
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