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Originally Posted by Salmon77
I guess I have two reactions when I see posts that make negative generalizations about psychotherapy (there is a systemic problem, those guys think they're gods, it's cult-like, and on and on). My first is that these are inaccurate, because they do not describe my therapy or my T at all.
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And what if making generalizations is therapeutic for those who've endured destructive therapy? I'm not talking about total condemnation or wild absolutes, but well reasoned criticisms and questioning of the system that are rooted in direct experience, research, and accounts from other clients.
I started the thread by linking to an article written
by the profession. The article, in my view, makes plain some disturbing things about therapy orthodoxy. Namely, that it's ok to decide a person's fate without consulting them, up to and including abandoning them in crisis.
I don't see how any of this is "negative". Such portrayals say more about the profession's distaste for honesty than anything else.