When a Therapist Abandons a Patient
A traumatizing relational wound results
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7 min readJan 9, 2021
“Abandonment doesn’t have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It’s like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.” ~Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow
Prior to covid and the inception of lockdown measures and the normalization of telehealth, I rendered ‘live’…