Quote from article: "So what are the markings of a cult and a guru who runs it? Absolute authority and someone without faults. The leader is a know it all, who runs your life and tells you how to live. Who demands obedience. Someone who does not trust you thinking for yourself. Someone who knows what is in your unconscious and interprets it for you; this teaches you to mistrust yourself and doubt your previous thoughts; submission to the leader’s thoughts. Never to question him or his beliefs even though it can lead to your deterioration…. A military mindset. Accepting a new moral orientation. An absolute belief in the leader’s theory. Believing he has a special wisdom and knows the secrets of the universe. Best if you know nothing of the leader’s life so that he remains a mystery (nearly always a “he”).. . . "

If your therapy is conducted in the manner stated above or if your therapist acts in the manner described above, I would strongly urge you to seek help elsewhere. My own personal experience in therapy (three different therapists over a period of time and interrupted at different points due to life situations) is NOTHING like what the author describes in the above paragraph.

On the basis of how the author/therapist describes and defines a "cult", my therapy experience does not fit the description, and therefore, my own therapy experience is not an cult experience. That doesn't mean of course that someone else's experience of therapy and a therapist can't fit the author's definition of a cult. It is an individual thing and only the person IN therapy can define or say whether or not their own personal experience fits the definition.