Before revision: It may be experienced by the non-client partner as the client having an emotional affair with the therapist if the client is perceived as granting the therapist a greater degree of intimacy and confiding than they grant the client's partner.Diane Vaughan, Uncoupling (1987) p. 212 The tendency to create a mate-substitute out of the therapist may be especially acute in incest survivors.Sam Kirschner, Working with Adult Incest Survivors (1993) p. 129 See also Notes References The Truth About Emotional Neglect in Marriage - A. Williams Pittman, F. (1989).
After revision: It may be experienced by the non-client partner as the client having an emotional affair with the therapist if the client is perceived as granting the therapist a greater degree of intimacy and confiding than they grant the client's partner.Diane Vaughan, Uncoupling (1987) p. 212 The tendency to create a mate-substitute out of the therapist may be especially acute in incest survivors.Sam Kirschner, Working with Adult Incest Survivors (1993) p. 129 See also Notes References Pittman, F. (1989).