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Old Sep 09, 2015, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by stopdog View Post
I don't think "what the norm is" is known. Therapists don't keep track of why people leave them. It is hard to study clients who are gone. Some of the ones whomstudy therapy say the number of people who return even for a second appointment is very low. I think horrific is more common than is comfortable to think about.

I think I read somewhere that only 25% of clients keep a second appointment. The number drops further after that, this article claimed, especially as "deep stuff" (still not totally clear what that is) comes up. I am not sure we can say this is all due to horrific therapists, although three of the ones I've tried over the decades were so bad at the first appointment that I did not keep the second one.

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