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Old Mar 13, 2016, 02:47 PM
Anonymous37890
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Originally Posted by BudFox View Post
But is having gone through years of analysis or any sort of therapy a reliable indicator of the therapist's mental and emotional health AND their ability to help someone else with theirs?

Just playing devil's advocate. I don't see having gone through therapy as necessarily a good thing at all. There are many stories of therapy causing significant harm, making people worse. A therapist in training, like the rest of us, could easily be made worse (or just not any better) by bad therapy. Or years of training and analysis might distort their way of relating to others, with excessive focus on theoretical and clinical way of thinking.
It is NOT a reliable indicator of a therapist's mental and emotional health. I think it would a huge red flag to me. How much therapy does a person need to be "healthy?" My thoughts are NONE. Therapy makes people worse in many cases and I think this would apply to therapists as well.

Also transference is just a theory with no basis in any kind of actual fact that it is helpful to people.
Thanks for this!
BudFox