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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
It's also cruelly ironic that those who are already sick are likely to get sicker as a result of their care - bacteria in hospitals, mistakes during surgery, side effects of chemo, etc. Some of this is the purpose of the therapeutic profession - it is meant to serve the vulnerable, and as a result it attracts people who prey on the vulnerable.
But what you're saying is the profession [eta - its methodology] itself at heart is designed to prey on the vulnerable, if I'm reading you right. I don't disagree - if the therapist's approach is going to be to infantilize the patient, it is unbelievably easy to do damage, accidental or not.
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Agree that mainstream medicine also victimizes quite regularly, though not in the same way as therapy (affecting sense of self, basic functioning, etc).
I don't think the therapy profession maliciously preys on the vulnerable. Rather its basic nature makes exploitation difficult to avoid. Kinda seems like a T would need to perform miracles or impossible contortions in order to avoid infantilizing and disempowering the most needy or susceptible clients.