I am not too concerned about the poor "maligned" therapists. Usually nothing happens to them even if they do something horribly wrong. The client is the one who has to live with the damage and trauma, not the therapist. So no sympathy for them from me. That would be a waste of my time.

Sincerely trying to help and screwing things up horribly is unacceptable. I get sick of people putting them on pedestals and blaming the clients for the therapist's failures. It's loathsome. It's not good enough in therapy to just have good intentions.

I agree with stopdog too. It is all pretty much a crap shoot. If you start researching things like how much time they spend on studying how to help someone who is suicidal you feel kind of sick. It's crazy. To go by "feelings" and their gut and whatever seems so dangerous to me.

No feeling sorry for them from me. I feel sorry for the poor people they destroy and harm.