The language used in the article (calling the therapist doctor and he for eg) suggests that it's pretty dated--and I don't just mean because language has evolved to be more inclusive.

The reality that psychotherapy is now a female-dominated profession and that most psychotherapists are not medical doctors (or even PhDs) both reflects and engenders a huge change in the way that therapy is practiced. The authority from on high aspect that is discussed? I've never encountered it in any of my myriad psychotherapy experiences. Three times a week? Are you kidding? Almost no one can do therapy that way even if they want to. I could go on and on.

We can thank feminism, other liberation movements, post modernism and queer theory as well as the vocal survivors of psychiatric abuse and many others for those profound changes. I really don't think what that author describes is at all in keeping with how most psychotherapy is practiced today.