What my therapist didn't understand.

I finished therapy a while ago, after enrolling for it as a self diagnosed narcissist. After a while, my therapist asked me, in a frustrated tone, how I felt about him trying to be friendly, basically, and letting me know that he liked me. I suppose that's part of the therapeutic process, and I was supposed to internalise his esteem of me or something. Anyway, I was surprised and annoyed, because surely he knew that I don't care about anybody, him included? Why would he think that it mattered to me that he liked me? I'd told him several times that people's opinions of me don't matter, because I'm presenting a false front, and that the 'me' he saw was just another version of that. I don't know if he'd been hoping that I liked him, and would therefore be able to attach to other people as well.

The other thing that gets on my nerves is the insistence by therapists that mental problems are always caused by trauma of some sort, despite growing evidence to the contrary. Twin studies and the like seem to pass them by.

act 4 wrote:Twin studies and the like seem to pass them by.

"Growing evidence " and twin studies, are you sure ?

Mental Illness: It's Not in Your Genes
http://bigthink.com/devil-in-the-data/mental-illness-its-not-in-your-genes

There is, as yet, no known gene for anything psychiatric. And the indications are that none will be found.

-- Mon Mar 21, 2016 3:42 pm --

A fun thing to say to people who believe in the medical model is Prove It.

I agree with those people who commented on the linked article, that it's more likely that several genes are implicated, rather than one. And I just think, if someone is very like their parent, and shares similar mental issues, is it really likely that parenting style, rather than any inherent traits, has caused those issues?