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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I very much want to discuss what happened at the end of this week's episode regarding Maya, but don't want to spoil anyone who hasn't yet watched (which I'm guessing might be a lot of people following this thread, since no one else has posted this week). So I'm holding off but please watch because I have thoughts to share and want to hear what others think![/quote]

Yes will be interesting to see how Gabby handles this. Likely changing future career plans she was just talking about. [/quote]

PP here. I have been ranting about the Maya storyline for a couple weeks to my DH because this is something about Shrinking that really annoys me. Jimmy's approach to therapy is really dangerous and disturbing, Gabby *knows* that and has been criticizing him about it for the entire show, and then she implements it in the worst possible way? I was getting really frustrated with the whole storyline but now I feel like, for once, the show is really going to address WHY it's so dangerous for therapists to become personally involved with their clients. Yet it seems bizarre to me that it's happening to Gabby who has always been the most professional of the three therapists and seemed to already understand this. Whereas Jimmy has been doing it since the start with no real consequences (for him, there have been negative consequences for his patients) and even Harrison Ford's character has done things I find questionable though nothing as bad as what Jimmy does or what Gabby did with Maya.[/quote]

Gabby massively brushed off Maya's comment about mixing Xanax and alcohol.[/quote]

Gabby also just recreated the precise situation in Maya's life that was leading to her feelings of isolation. Maya had been feeling abandoned by her friends, who were not showing up for her in her life when she felt she needed them. Then Gabby decided to violate traditional boundaries to become Maya's friend. Then Maya was in a low moment and feeling in need of a friend, called Gabby, and Gabby brushed her off and imposed the traditional therapist-patient boundaries ("we can talk about this at our next session"). It was an unintentional bait and switch that would feel especially devastating to someone in a state of depression, as Maya clearly is.

The whole thing is TERRIBLE therapeutic practice. Gabby was making a big deal about how Maya wouldn't "let [her] in." Rather than recognizing that Maya's reluctance to be open and honest with Gabby is a reflection of trust issues likely related to past experiences (that they might eventually address in therapy), Gabby fixated on finding a way to force Maya to open up more quickly. And then rather than employing any actual cognitive behavioral techniques to help Gabby with the ways that her depression was distorting her perception, Gabby just introduced Maya to *her* friends and congratulated herself for fixing Gabby's loneliness without addressing any of the underlying reasons for it.

It's malpractice. And it's especially annoying because Gabby has been the most vocal opponent to Jimmy's "style" of therapy previously, which was the right attitude, but for some reason she decided to do a 180 on it.

This show drives me nuts sometimes.[/quote]

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