I didn’t name this thread and I don’t know that “flawed” is the word I would have used to describe my unsatisfactory experiences with therapy. Nevertheless, my personal experience is that therapy is flawed. My trauma specialist therapist has also told me that she believes the system is dysfunctional. People tend to come to her by referral, generally not the first therapist people have seen, and I am not the only client she has treated who has been hurt by other therapists.

Unfortunately I see no research on that topic when I do internet searches. I had all the coursework done for a Ph.D. in cognitive – not clinical – psychology when my late husband was diagnosed with a terminal illness. So I understand how psychologists do research, and looking into the harm that psychotherapy can do is certainly something that a psychological researcher is capable of doing, if they thought it was an interesting question and could get support of the APA or other agency or university department to do the research.