Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay explores the development of mutual and platonic love between a client and therapist. The author, a psychotherapist herself, provides a first-hand account of her experiences as a client in long-term relational psychotherapy, including reflection upon her grief regarding the relationship’s abrupt ending due to her therapist’s cancer diagnosis. Drawing upon Martin Buber’s concept of the I-Thou Relationship , as well as contemporary research surrounding the vital role of the therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy, this paper encourages therapists to fully consider the tensions that exist between the contractual versus human aspects of psychotherapy practice while embracing the inevitably relational nature of the work. To acknowledge love for one’s clients is complex and fraught with ethical and professional risks, and to fully attune to our clients’ love for us may be uncomfortable; however, as this essay suggests, there are also profound risks in dismissing, minimizing, or pathologizing these feelings. While remaining committed to necessary professional standards and boundaries, this author’s experience suggests that full recognition of the mutual love that may develop between client and therapist embodies a relational and feminist ethos to practice, may enhance therapy’s outcomes, and importantly, emphasizes the common humanity shared between both parties.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".