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Originally Posted by SkyscraperMeow
Really? So once you step over the threshold of a therapist's office, you become completely unable to manage yourself? To take responsibility for who is in your life, and who you allow in it?
Listen, I said that there are ****** therapists. But who on earth is going to protect you if you can't / won't / don't protect yourself? I mean, in simple terms of practicality nobody can.
A bad therapist is a terrible thing, but if clients keep paying them, then bad therapists stay in business. So what do you seriously, practically suggest can be done, if the client is not responsible?
Being overly attached to a bad therapist is about the closest real life thing I can imagine to the proverbial cage with an open door that a prisoner simply refuses to walk out of.
The problem is, how do you help someone who won't take the available exit?
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The problem is that therapists can encourage surrender.The problem is that therapists can have god-complexes. The problem is clinicians can lead clients to believe they have more power than they really do to lead someone out of distress. Penfold, Alexander and Sands in their books and Wohlberg in her internet writings are all intelligent women who were lured into destructive relationships with therapists.
I gather from these scoldings that you've never been fooled by anyone, never been led down a garden path for one moment of your life, so you simply don't relate. Hearty congratulations. Maybe chastising others makes earns glorious success in real life. I personally don't find furious reproach, scolding and fool-labeling wise or useful.