Is there any psychological or analytical purpose that the therapist asks me to describe myself physically?

[Isabeeell]

The other day I went, he asked me to describe my facial features and I told him that my face was as I saw it and then he insisted so I began to describe that my eyes are big, eyebrows, etc. then he asks me to describe the body and I tell him that my legs are thin and he says: but what about the shape of your legs and I answer that they are legs like those of any human. then when I told him that's it, he asked me and you don't have ears that you didn't describe them and I told him that was enough and that I wasn't going to describe more because the ears are ears that I am going to describe them.

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I ask because I have no knowledge of psychology and I have no idea how useful this will be.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

It's incredibly useful to the therapest. But if you know what they're getting at, it might ruin their ability to accurately assess the answer.

When a psychologist or therapest asks questions, you need to decide if you trust the person beforehand. If you're overthinking your answers, it will make it almost impossible for them to draw useful conclusions.

But just so that hopefully you'll trust answering uncomfortable questions more. A question like that is useful for understanding how a person sees themself.

We have several different modes of perception and this is a complicated topic but an ability to make an honest assessment of yourself is different from an accurate one and where you lean on the subjective parts of that perception give clues to how your mind is wired up too.

[BeMuse]

They want to know how you perceive yourself. Are you insecure? Are you depressed? Are you a narcissistic? Are you realistic? Some people think they are perfect, other people beat themselves up. Some people feel shame. Some people are like eh whatever I'm happy with myself. Then they follow up with is there anything you would change. Someone with body image issues would go on an on where as a normal confident person would be like I don't know, I could probably lose a couple pounds. Everyone can generally lose a couple of pounds so that is a normal reaction that is unless the person is clearly anorexic.

[boggboss]

Probably ti get insight to how u see your body as a way to see how self confidant you are ir overjudgmental you are on yourself

[jahaims]

To gauge how realistically you view yourself and correlate those views with your actions

[RobEurope]

Look it up online. I have no idea. Maybe body image disorder?

[MCheetah]

Sounds sus. I'd say that's inappropriate.

[UniquelyBasic]

Seems weird 😆