Who Gives Therapy to the Therapist?

Abstract

Aime Parra Legarreta

The symbolic price of practicing as a therapist: when the mind encodes what the heart dares not integrate.

This study and proposal were inspired by four mental health professionals

• Applied Clinical Psychologist
• Applied Forensic Psychologist
• Applied Psychoanalyst
• Applied Psychiatrist

Whose enormous ethics, vocation for service, will, and absolute willingness to apply their knowledge and experience to patient care (regardless of how complicated the patient may be and despite the emotional implications for them of absorbing the patient's projective burden during therapy, which permeates their own personal lives), provided a solid and firm foundation for my comprehensive psycho-emotional development, despite the cognitive dissonance that interacting with me as a patient generated for them.

To those who didn't give up: I saw you, I understood you, just as you understood me... and this is my way of thanking you for your enormous commitment.

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