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Originally Posted by Echos Myron
IDK. I kinda feel like we're getting to the stage where you're hell bent on making a point that people have clearly said they find invalidating and over-generalised.
There can be cultish type behaviour and cultures in many, many areas of society, and perhaps psychotherapy is no exception. Indeed there is also sexual abuse by psychotherapists but nobody would say 'psychotherapy as a platform for sexual abuse'.
Yes, anybody who has experienced any type of abuse in therapy including gas lighting, emotional, sexual abuse or whatever else deserves a voice and empathy, however not at the expense of the truth, which is that this is a minority of cases. Scaremongering is unhelpful.
I had a bad experience in therapy where I was hurt terribly, and I am and will always remain, an advocate for the rights of clients and a critic of bad therapists, but you know what? I've also had (and continue to have) a great experience in therapy, and it would be a real shame for the message of what a healing experience therapy can be to be drowned out by the negative (and very valid) experiences of some of the users of this forum.
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Personally, I must assert that I find BudFox's points the
opposite of invalidating and over-generalized. Generalizing that "people" as a group find it to be such is a bit overbearing, isn't it? Anyway, the premise presented here is incredibly valid, considering that grandiosity and god-complex are major occupational hazards for those in the profession (i.e. eventually dealt with by most practitioners to some or another degree of severity).
How could BudFox's interests and line of thinking on the topic be any more invalidating or counterproductive than that of people who defend therapy as having magical powers that mere clients are best off receiving even blindly (about which I am frequently biting my own tongue out of respect for others' opinions)? As a fan of
good therapy, I don't find examinations of what bad therapy is to be invalidating in the least, only
grounding, and an aid to good reasoning and consideration. That is, in my own personal opinion and estimation, which I expect in their specificity to positively contribute to the array of knowledge and idea-sharing that we manifest here.