Posted July 13, 2021, 4:03 p.m. by Commander Dira Myqian (Executive Officer) (Lindsay B)
Posted by Lieutenant Dr. Solomon Kane (Medical Research & Development) in Myqian’s Quarters- Harsh Realities
Posted by Commander Dira Myqian (Executive Officer) in Myqian’s Quarters- Harsh Realities
Posted by Lieutenant Dr. Solomon Kane (Medical Research & Development) in Myqian’s Quarters- Harsh Realities
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Kane looked at her and his brow furrowed slightly… well, slight more. He looked at her and leaned forward and said “Ok… so I get the part about Intel getting your girl killed. And I can sympathize. As far as the self-involved manipulative people? Well… there’s selfish bastards in every universe, I guess. But you lost me at the whole ‘failed as a leader’ bit. When did that happen?”
Kane
She didn’t have the energy for this. For another big story. To defend her feelings. Hell, she didn’t even know how to evaluate her own feelings and that was a pat of the problem. She just needed a bit of time. But she was well aware that she probably wouldn’t get the time she truly needed either. Such was life. Dira shook her head slowly. No, she wouldn’t unpick that piece just now. Instead silence was her initial answer.
“Do you know what transference is?” she said quietly. Even now she wasn’t sure she’d tell the whole story or even a lot of it, but she could tell this piece.
Commander Myqian, XO
“Uh…” Kane though a moment and then said “Isn’t it when a person redirects some of their feelings or desires for another person to an entirely different person? Like when a patient has anger or is in love with someone and goes to the therapist fo rhelp and then has those feelings for the therapist?”
Kane, amateur psychologist
Dira nodded slowly. “It’s something we guard against in our practices on a regular basis. But it can still happen and when it does, there are ways we can interject space and sometimes we have to have someone take over the case. The same thing that I am struggling now with the mixing up of emotions is something that can and did crop up in my therapy practice, especially early on. I can get to close because therapy can be a very intimate process. Someone is inviting you in deeply into their life, into their psyche.”
“On my last assignment I had a patient with a lot of issues surrounding his father. I can’t go into details but he would lash out at me, fully expecting me to retaliate. And when I didn’t, when I instead showed hm empathy and compassion, care, he grew… attached. I know it was because he had had a wonderful relationship with his mother when he was young but she died and he was left with an emotionally crippling father and a family who would prop him up, probably out of pity, but also because of guilt for not stepping in sooner. And when his father died unexpectedly, he came to me and I tried to help him work through that all.”
Dira cast her gaze elsewhere for a moment and something was off. Oh, the place was tidy. Huh. She returned her gaze to Kane, pushing down the slight terror that this particular topic brought up. “He kept showing up. we worked together, so it was hard to avoid him unless I was in sessions constantly, which I often could be. But… he knew how to get to me. How to make his presence known even if we weren’t in the same room.” She tapped her head. “I always knew and he delighted in it. I couldn’t shut him out entirely.”
Commander Myqian, XO
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