Why? Actually things like repressed anger usually don't come up in therapy. Things that are repressed don't usually come up at all. As for regular anger coming up in therapy, it usually doesn't either.
If LP is a certified therapist with experience, and knows whereof she speaks (here again, responding to you but really to her), fine, no problem. That's her experience. My experience working thru problems with 8-10 different therapists (I can't offhand remember how many) has been different. I am very aware, and have been for some time, in therapy and out, of the anger I feel towards my Mother and how I feel she didn't value me (no obvious abuse; no physical or "verbal abuse", just no attention or affection). This is starting to move away from the subject. In any case if LP is an experienced therapist, fine. Her experience has been different from what I have received from therapists I have worked with. If, on the other hand, she is making these blanket statements from no professional experience, but only from reading magazine articles or from receiving services from therapist(s) as a client, then she is/you are (not GEL but LP) a "shithouse lawyer" and shouldn't be making these generalizations.
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929.
