Re:Dependent/Avoidant/Reactive

I could have written my earlier message in a less threatening way. Do you really mean what you said?

In case you do, remember that nothing about the implied or overt contract between practioner and patient replaces or supercedes the basic dignity human beings afford each other. And central to that is the belief that each of us is self-determining,unless,perhaps, we are truly insane or severely brain damaged.
I think there is sometimes confusion between superficial power(Its my office)and the allocation of this real power.
Time, energy, and money spent on education doesn't buy anyone the right to dismiss the autonomy of others. Nor does it buy the insight to know whats best for them.
Hopefully it imbues the therapist with more kindness, understanding and control over his own neurotic or psychotic leanings than the people in the patients life, present and present and enables them to accept him more fully.

I realize I sound as dogmatic as you did but its hard not to, isn't it?

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