lg, hmmm, interesting. i agree with ag that there is love in doing what they do, i guess that is what love looks like. kind of a love of humanity, in a broader sense. and strm, the different feelings to different clients.

for me? have any of them loved me? i think t1 did in a certain way. he would tell me he prays for me. and there was a distance, that, strangely, pointed out his countertransference.

none of the others, i would say.

Dr. PA? i think he is quite fond of me in a fatherly way. but, he may be doing the 'carl rogers' thing. i can't tell. he has no reason not to like me though.

i don't intend to invalidate any of yall's 'felt love', and i am sure it exists, with the right connection of t to c, and in longer term therapies. but, i don't see, other than a deep, specific, humankind 'love', anything like that happening for me. a parental type love.

but, i do love them, at the time. most of them. in a dependant, childish love.

jill