Attraction is an extremely inevitable state which is common among human beings. The fact that human beings are considerably ‘sensual’ creatures, the tendency to feel a higher feeling of emotion towards a species of such kind is conceivably normal and acceptable (Marcus, 1998). Moreover, the repulsive measure of an individual’s capability of to feel an echelon of intimacy is noted to be the manifestation of arousal, pleasure and self-satisfaction. An individual’s emotion is an uncontrollable emission of the deeper and implicit desires which tends to linger due to a formidable stimulus pious enough to take in power (Castonguay, 20002).The feeling of attraction comes to any person like a jolt of lightning by which is then hard to specify and overcome. It is similar to that of a magnet, inducing a strong force of heed to be able to fulfill a certain point of desire and finally feel a flaming level of climax and fall in an ocean of satisfaction (Kitchener, 2000). Such free-falling behavior is noted to be a neuroscience which is incorporated with biochemical explanations, stressing the fact that human sexual relationships are driven by chemically deliberative natural explanations which gives no concrete detail on the partially argument of the mentioned reality.
On human behavior analogy, it is like that of Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning, wherein once the person is able to realize the emotion, it will always seek that kind of feeling and thus raising the answer of the matter (Neri, 2002). The essence of group psychotherapy is characterized as that of which is intended for an individual to develop and improve its outlook and perception on a certain problem faced in one’s life and being given measures in order to cope up and overcome the trauma and all the other aftermath negative emotions which might have been manifested by the downfall.This effective tool of behavioral mechanism offers the patient a chance to boost up its self-esteem and finally recover itself from the handicapping or distress felt (Neri, 2002). Given the fact that this kind of therapy involves the group share their feelings and emotions with one another already gives an idea that the tendency of getting attracted to a member in the group is but an unavoidable circumstance.Moreover, the therapist or the conductor is most likely considered as that holds the most fragile and sensitive responsibility for the reason that almost all of the feelings shared to such may or may not affect his or her personal comprehension (Kahn, 1997).
With such reason, it denotes the support on the survey that many therapists fall or get attracted, at that, to their clients and thus further establishes a great complication within the group and the profession.Being obliged to help the client in his or her emotional troubles, psychotherapists use the counter transference condition by instilling their own learning and realizations taken from past experiences, which are perceivably positive and soul uplifting, so as to own the sanity of the client and thus shift the emotion to sagacity of hope and admiration (Kahn, 1997). That again, is a crucial basis why some clients also fall or get attracted to their therapists; the creation of the room of admiration often leads to intimate desires and attraction.In most instances of counter transference, the therapist actually makes it evident to the client that they are able to carry half the burden of what the client is carrying, and that then sustains the argument of attraction (Castonguay, 2002). The inexorableness of attraction is a customary feeling among humans. However, in the case of therapist to client, the standpoint is professionally unacceptable. Therefore, in order not to break the rules of professionalism, one must be a bearer of strong manipulation over one’s humanistic deeds.
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