I appreciate you posting and sharing the articles, Dowjones, but I have to admit that I didn't get past the first article. I feel that it is just another article "blaming" and "shaming" the client if they don't get relief they seek in therapy. I feel that there are a LOT of inadequate, ignorant and poorly trained clinicians out there, selling a bill of goods that is rotten. And when they fail, it's waaaay too easy for him/her to chalk it up to the client "not trying hard enough", "being difficult or too angry to benefit from the healing process" or "not open to change." One of the things I looked for when seeking out a therapist was one who was open to looking at his/her own issues and how they get in the way of the healing process. I also think that too many therapists enter the profession too damaged themselves to help the clients, and when they're confronted with their inadequacies, they get waaaaay too defensive. That's one of the easiest ways to find out if a therapist has done his/her own work, confront him/her with some type of behavior and then sit back and see how they react. When the defensiveness sends them off the rails, you know that you're working with someone who hasn't done their own healing.