Other analytically oriented clinicians who treated incest and sexual abuse survivors told us they were often steeped in self-doubt, even shame, about what they considered to be somewhat unconventional and turbulent treatments. They yearned for reassurance, guidance, and validation.

Jody Messler Davies and Mary Gail Frawley, Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse.

This goes out to everyone who has scared their therapists with unconventional and turbulent behaviors and relational approaches. What happened to you was so overwhelming that it’s overwhelming to grown-ass clinicians with a PhD experiencing only echoes of the abuse, from miles and miles and years and years away.

I am going to be posting quotes from this book at @therapeuticmonologues going forward.