Perhaps those with negative experiences are more prone to write about it in forums like PC but when I mentioned studies about negative effects from therapy, I´ve read several big studies written at universities.
I´ve also noticed that you start out thinking you have a very good relationship and then from one meeting to another, you´re in a rupture and the T just plays the unsympathetic role. My T even wrote we had a good relationship and she then totally and cruelly just let me down saying she suddenly wasn´t the right T for me.
She even said she had thought about that earlier on. But she never told me anything like that, she let me believe that we had a good relationship and that she thought I should try to find finances to be able to stay in therapy.
The T always have the power of course, you may perhaps file a complaint but in most cases it will do no good as the T has to do very severe things like sexually offending the client to be met with any kind of consequences to their actions.
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Originally Posted by puzzle_bug1987
I agree. I think there are far too many incompetent therapists out there and far too many clients getting hurt. I think even when a client thinks they have a good relationship it often ends up being enmeshed and unhealthy and damaging. I don't know if there is any research about who leaves reviews or who comes to forums like these, but I don't think it is more negative than positive. I actually see more therapists with NO reviews at all online.
I have seen SO many people come here talking about their "great" therapist and then down the line they get horribly hurt or terminated abruptly or the therapist does some other stupid thing to cause more damage.
Oh and there is the classic "blame the client" for the failure of therapy. Ha! Clients rarely "win" in the therapy "game."
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