Until -- Laura decides to take the initiative and end the therapeutic relationship. Before the end, Laura told her inner secret: At the age of 15, her mother died and her father fell into depression. A father-in-law, David, who had attracted her, appeared, and she hoped he would adopt her, take her away from her depressed father, and was rejected. Then, the man showed up at her house, and she seduced him, making love to him every day under her father's nose. She felt proud of this, and felt that she could successfully enter the adult world and stay with the man she liked.
It dawned on Paul that Laura had been seducing him in exactly the way she was good at making her feel attractive, successful, and in control. She habitually used temptation to communicate with all the men she wanted to be close to and control them, but she hated herself for this because she couldn't see that she was worthy of being loved and cared for.
The next week, Laura, who was no longer a patient, returned to see Paul, who admitted that he was attracted and fell in love with Laura. Laura wanted to kiss him, but Paul refused. Laura was frustrated and angry. Paul said, "You don't think I'm interested in you if I don't have sex with you. I'm not going to betray you and do things that hurt you like David did." I was moved at that moment, no longer Laura's therapist Paul was finally in the therapist's seat, putting his wishes aside and acting in the way that would help Laura the most.
Then Paul discussed a lot of the emotions that Laura had aroused in the therapist (I didn't watch this part, I watched it in story-by-story order). In the last episode, Gina finally got impatient and said to Paul, "You keep talking about how important Laura is to you, as if I'm holding you back. Can you take responsibility for yourself? If you want to go to Laura, go Find it."
And then, the ridiculous ending: Paul had a panic attack in Laura's bedroom when he tried to sleep with her. Paul said, "I was terrified of being swallowed." I thought, in that place, Paul probably had some complexities of his own to deal with. Still, I appreciate Gina's explanation. "You did the right thing, for yourself, for your patients," she said. "The right decision is never made gracefully because it requires us to fight our own desires. Panic attacks are not foreign, they are You, you are responsible for your actions and you deserve to be appreciated for making the right decisions."
And the most interesting thing is that it wasn't until Paul decided to accept Laura to try to be with her that she really realized that she didn't really want to be with her. With Paul, he is accustomed to interacting with men in this seductive way. This is what Gina calls "ironic success."
Seeing this, I began to think that being a therapist is such a sad profession. You have to involve yourself in order to really help the patient. But often walking by the river, how can you not wet your shoes. The result of being involved is the constant need to struggle with one's own desires, and the constant use of rational abstraction to understand and transcend one's own desires. How sad it is as a human being to sacrifice one's own desires for a work ethic.
The screenwriter does have a deep understanding of psychotherapy, and this drama has written the ups and downs of being a therapist. If Alex's drama is unfortunate and the ending is bitter, Laura's drama is spicy first and then sour, and the taste is very heavy, hehe. Although there are too many places to spoil the setting for drama, it is very well written about how psychotherapy works at the root, and it is true to art.
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