I am
married, but lately I am having fantasies about having sex with my therapist.
Telling my therapist is out of the question, so will I end up trying to seduce
him if I don’t tell?
There is no way for anyone to predict exactly what will
happen if you don’t talk about the fantasies. But I can guarantee that
if you don’t talk about them, whatever happens won’t be pleasant.
And it won’t be psychotherapy.
The truth is,
sexual fantasies
usually aren’t even about sexuality; if you make the effort to examine
them psychologically and objectively, you will find that they usually point
to deep, unresolved emotional conflicts about a need for acceptance and a
fear of abandonment, usually deriving from emotional
wounds in childhood because of parental failures.
If you talk about
these erotic feelings in
psychotherapy—and if your psychotherapist is competent enough to interpret
them—then you have a chance to heal those conflicts. And that
will be psychotherapy.
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