What you're saying is making my brain hurt. I do believe I am having a bout of misunderstanding going down. Are you saying that if a person's t suggests they make a system map then the t thinks the person is lying? I'm also not understanding how if a person knows about some others in their system then their dx is discredited. I also don't understand how having some degree of co con means a person can control who is out.

I understand that you said 'most', but it gets me concerned when I hear about doctors trying to apply some narrow standard across a broad range of people. I understand things such as the need for uniform standards in diagnostic criteria or the mental health system would be a hotter mess with one doc using his ideas and another using hers. Messy. But to hear about someone trying to say that if someone can make a system map about some people they have awareness of discredits them... that completely invalidates a huge population of people who have some co con going on in their system. I find that to be dangerous and concerning if mental health people truly do believe what you wrote to be truth. I truly do hope I am seriously misunderstanding this, because if I am not, my nonexistent faith in the mental health field has plummeted even farther below zero faith. Did not know that I could think less of them.

-Tay