Guest guest Posted December 29, 2003 Report Share Posted December 29, 2003 Thank you for your response ceep. I wasn't exactly sure what the legal standards were for therapist (after all, I just have a social work degree). I am glad to hear there are things that can be done. Lori Owen - Denton, Texas SRVG 7/16/01 Dr. Ritter/Dr. Bryce 479/356/hoping for close to 200 On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:57:56 EST lacorona@... writes: > I would like to respond to this part of your letter. " Alliance > issues " is not > common jargon that most patients would understand without an > explanation. If > your therapist did not refer you to another therapist, if they > terminated via > letter without aftercare til you were settled again, they may have > violated > both ethical and legal standards. It is REQUIRED ethically, to speak > to a > patient about termination if either party feels the relationship is > not 'a good > fit,' or if either one thinks after careful evaluation they cannot > handle what are > called' transference and counter-transference' issues--this may have > been > what your past therapist meant by 'alliance issues' --how one > becomes an ally of > the other. > I hope I have been clear. > This is just ceep's two cent's worth. > Psychoanalyst, 35 years of clinical practice as of 2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2003 Report Share Posted December 29, 2003 I'll tell you what especially fries my ass about 's " therapy " situation: that while not everything is clear about the therapeutic situation in it's entirety, it is indisputable that the " therapist " terminated by letter using language that she SHOULD HAVE KNOWN, if she didn't have her head wedged way up her ass, that her patient would NOT understand. If she had an IQ over single digits she should have known this, IF she had been paying any attention whatsoever, and/or if she wasn't a complete incompetent. I don't know if she was justified in terminating, or if she may have broached the subject with in person and for some reason didn't make herself understood, but that she DID NOT make her reasons for terminating clear to in her letter is undeniable, and I think reprehensible. She can say " I am terminating because of " alliance " issues, but then EXPLAIN what that means! Does she not understand she is not speaking to a member of " the guild " ??? Does she think is a fellow " therapist " and knows the lingo? What does she mean -- " alliance " -- in plain non-psychobabbleistic english. That they will now vote each other off the friggin' Survivor show? HELLO!?!?!?!?!?!? YOU SPEAK SIMPLY AND MAKE YOURSELF UNDERSTOOD -- unless you yourself are simple-minded! especially with a person you KNOW (or should know) is emotionally vulnerable and having difficulties etc. I am not saying the therapist should be a martyr to what may have been a very poisonous, or not productive, therapeutic situation, but she had a responsibility to terminate it with clarity and kindness (at the very fkn least!), and to make a referral of SOME kind! You don't just leave someone dangling like that and completely mystified, it is unconscionable. Lucille (grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!) In a message dated 12/29/2003 6:48:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, DisDog writes: > Thank you for your response ceep. I wasn't exactly sure what the legal > standards were for therapist (after all, I just have a social work > degree). I am glad to hear there are things that can be done. > Lori Owen - Denton, Texas > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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