Loving Therapists, Narcissistic Clients, and God Transference
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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March 14, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So Bob, emails, what do you say? |
| 0:01.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:02.7 | Annual anonymous patron, she says, hi, Kirk and Bob. |
| 0:06.2 | In a couple of recent episodes, Bob mentioned that he loves his clients. |
| 0:12.1 | My question is, do you ever tell them that you love them, Bob? |
| 0:17.0 | If so, what do you take into consideration when deciding whether to do so or not? |
| 0:22.9 | Just chiming in, Bob, do you? |
| 0:25.1 | Yeah, sometimes. |
| 0:26.2 | I do tell my clients that I love them sometimes, less than I used to, because these days it's |
| 0:31.6 | couple therapy mostly, and it just doesn't, you know, it doesn't come up as much because |
| 0:37.2 | we're not paying attention so much to the |
| 0:39.4 | relationship we're having, mostly to the relationship that the couples, you know, they're having. |
| 0:45.4 | So, but occasionally it'll come up. Like most recently, there's a couple I see who are not |
| 0:52.1 | sure if they're going to stay together and are just doing the most admirable job of talking to one another about their basic difference. |
| 1:02.0 | And individually, they're both lovely. |
| 1:05.6 | And as a couple, they're really lovely. |
| 1:07.3 | I think, I don't know if they're going to make it as a couple. |
| 1:10.1 | They really could |
| 1:11.0 | break up because the thing that they seem to have a difference about is a pretty basic deal breaker. |
| 1:16.0 | So they might, but it won't be one of those, you know, breakups with a lot of animosity or, you know, |
| 1:22.2 | it's sort of like this as far as we can go together thing. And so when they were facing that, I said to them, you know, you guys are just, I love you both. |
| 1:31.3 | You're, you know, I don't really care if you make it or not. |
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