I was interested in the author's point of view until he started talking about how the therapy approach he practices is different and the therapist is not the expert and clients are truly encouraged to get out of therapy. I'm not saying that is not true; I have no experience with primal therapy. But I know many therapists and approaches that consider the client an expert in his/her own life, and many clients do actually need long-term therapy. Of course there will always be therapists who are exploiting clients emotionally, financially, and in other ways, and of course there will always be clients who will just act out a relational pattern with a therapist who encourages codependence instead of helping the client understand the experience and decide for oneself how to lead a happier life. As in any line of work, some people just don't care or can't do a better job, and that is very unfortunate given the sensitive nature of this particular type of work. But it seems unfair and misguided to generalize this to all or almost all psychotherapy except for the one that the author practices.