The reparative relationship...
"I am the slaughter at your altar. That's where my need for you begins..." M. Gira. The Beggar. "I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about my principles, my ethical rule, that once a client always a client because you never know what the future is going to bring, and people do come back" I could not understand for the life of me why Kit thought I'd ever return as a client. But then... he wasn't 'talking about me '. And the feeling of being so utterly rejected, disliked even, by one's therapist, was such a corrosive poison it has taken? I was about to say, it has taken this blog to cure me. No, it is not over yet. He just about rubbished all that was best, all that was most alive and all that was most able to keep me alive. But hey, he was just helping me face reality...by remaining unable to say what had actually happened... Whatever! His statement; clients, people, do come back to see us as therapists, is true. Kit went onto sa...