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Old Aug 27, 2014, 05:27 PM
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I can totally understand being invalidated time and time again, but I would not make such sweeping generalizations that "mental health pros aren't healthy people." They're just people, like you and me. I've had to deal with some real a--holes, that's for sure. Some of them should find new careers but I don't want to generalize. Also, if they're are not properly trained in trauma they're guaranteed to screw up.
Well, not all ducks swim...but I'm comfortable with the sweeping generalisation that they do. I am equally comfortable with a social worker Ryan telling his classes in psych hospital "most therapiest are crap". Three decades of my own experience confirms it. And let's face it'd who raises the most screwed up kids? It's a longstanding (a century) truism that psychoanalysts are narcissists. The whole transference countertransference deal is t spending all day thinking about how what you think about her helps her know how to fix you. Don't think less intellectualism makes the new fangled ones any bette