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Originally Posted by here today
I've said before in the forum, it just seems to me so ridiculously obvious that a research study looking what has happened to clients who report feeling that therapy HAS caused harm and/or left them feeling interpersonally "wronged" could find some commonalities that might help prevent these situations from happening in the future, as well as -- who knows? -- leading to new understandings.
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I've seen no indication that the biz is interested in seriously examining its casualties and failures. I think doing so opens a pandora's box for them. I think they are nervous and avoidant on this topic because they suspect that looking deeply at harmful outcomes would reveal disturbing truths. All the focus is on the successes and on the egregious abuses, which are segregated out as anomalies.
The rest of the mild to serious detrimental outcomes are basically undocumented far as I can tell.
There's also the question of how to identify, locate, contact people harmed by therapy. Still, not doing so means operating unethically.