I want to tickle my therapist
I been seeing my therapist for the last 2 months, she already knows about my tickling and foot passion. She stated she had another client that is into tickling; so, I gave her the website URL. Since then I have notice she always cross her legs in my direction with her foot pointing or dangling toward me.
When I glaze at them she would turn away; just to point them back at me later on. I don’t think she’s into tickling because of how she looks when we talks about it. But, yet it seems (to me) she tempts me every chance she gets. I often wonder how ticklish her feet could be once she pulls off those sensible size 7 shoes she always wears.
How often to you think about tickling someone you know you can never have.
This thread is like getting a censored letter during a time of war. Sure, it's cool to get one at all, but it's fairly impossible to read.
She may be doing it on purpose. There are many forms of psychotherapy that use what's called "transference." That means you "transfer" your feelings for others (repressed or otherwise) onto your therapist. (Transference happens all the time outside the therapeutic setting, but therapists use it as a tool to understand you.) These transferred feelings can include anger, frustration, love, and sexual attraction. Thus, she may be deliberately trying to elicit a sexual response.
You can read more about it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transference
The therapist would not be trying to cure the patient of something that he has said he enjoys (He revealed his like of it in answer to her question, "What makes you happy") so there is no reason for her to try and use transference to solve this issue, and even if it were true, a therapist works to NEVER encourage transference to themselves. It's just asking for bigger issues.
So no. Odds are the woman is acting without realizing the effect she is having upon her patient.
And the OP edited his posts there has been NO censorship of this thread by any TMF staff member.
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Some therapists do engage in that practice. Yes, it's risky. But it's really common for people to become attracted to their therapists, or at least identify attributes in their therapists that they see in objects of affection and sexual desire. It happens whether they work toward it or not.
Maybe the dangling is subconscious countertransference!
Do you personally know therapists who admit to doing this??
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I know one (took a seminar with her) that explained it happens a lot. I don't think she discourages it. It's not a method to "cure" a person of love or fetish or whatever, it's a way of understanding better what they're feeling, rather than have them try to describe it in words.
Go Pacman!
Why would you make your fetish a topic in therapy if that is not what your problem is? Why does the therapist need to know how you feel about it?
And yes, it happens that patients fall in love with their therapists, and if the therapist realizes that, he/she tells the patient to find another therapist!
This thread is like getting a censored letter during a time of war. Sure, it's cool to get one at all, but it's fairly impossible to read.
Why would you make your fetish a topic in therapy if that is not what your problem is? Why does the therapist need to know how you feel about it?