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Originally Posted by brillskep
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.
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Yea for sure, you could say he is discrediting one form to sell another. But still, doesn't that amount to a sort of ad-hominen attack, going after the messenger instead of the message? His argument about therapy as cult either holds up or it does not. I think parts of it absolutely do. Also he's not the only one making the comparison.
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Originally Posted by brillskep
But it seems unfair and misguided to generalize this to all or almost all psychotherapy except for the one that the author practices.
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I dunno, it makes sense to me. The very nature of therapy requires some of the same assumptions and realities. One person seeking help from another, sometimes in a state of significant vulnerability and confusion, the expectation that the client will defer or submit to the T (not always but clearly this is common), the process largely playing out in isolation.