Wow, that article really got me angry! The author is entitled to his opinion, and does make some good points, but I think the way the article is written, it is severely taken out of context and degrading to therapists in general, and patients of therapist.

The author is a career coach, and I see his point in saying that long-term therapy kills careers. I think he was trying to say long-term therapy as a "solution" for career issues is a bad idea. However, he calls long-term therapy anything more than 5 or 10 sessions. What!? After 5 sessions, I was barely scratching the service with my T and 10 sessions I was just starting to get in the water up to my knees.

To me, long term therapy is anything more than 50-100 sessions. I use sessions, because it's not fair to say in terms of years, since some people may see their T once a week, while others 3x a week.

Regardless, the other thing that irked me is the author has a PhD in education, NOT psychology. So he is insulting psychology/psychiatry as a profession yet has no formal training in it. How would he feel if someone insulted his profession as a career coach?

Lastly, he gives tough love lectures - that may work well for someone who is mentally stable, emotionally stable, and just unsure about their career path. However, for someone who is not mentally/emotionally stable, I could easily see how that type of lecture could send someone into a crisis mode.

I guess the reason I'm really irked by his article is that it stereotypes psychologists as money grubbers, narcissistic, "evil" people who just prey on those who have emotional/mental problems.

I'm strongly against any form of stereotyping in any form, and definitely disgusted by that article.