The article is interesting. It seems to be written by the guy who developed Primal Therapy (and says it's not the same thing as Primal Scream Therapy Warning: Primal Therapy is not "Primal Scream" Therapy"). I had no idea he was still around, but apparently he is. I suspect some of this article is at least in part influenced by old-school notions of psychotherapy that were en vogue when he was developing his ideas. There seems to have been some accusations of cultiness around his own work, but perhaps that is as they say on their website, about unauthorized practitioners using some of his ideas improperly.

I am interested and curious about the culty aspects of therapy, because I'm kind of interested in cults and what draws people to them. None of this resonates at all with my experience of therapy, which is uncultlike, and my therapist and I both tend toward anti-authoritarianism so that kind of dynamic just doesn't appear. He'd make a really lousy guru even if I were looking for one. But I think these discussions have been interesting to see everyone's responses.