I think there may be hope for therapy to help many people here. And I think that there "should" be hope -- the profession "should" try to help people, that's what their public, social mandate is. Just like maybe anything, it goes wrong sometimes, they have very limited knowledge, the idea that psychotherapy at this point is "scientific" is, to me, nonsense. Pseudoscience, maybe, but not what I would call science, and calling it that, as the APA did, just misleads people in my view.

My hope is that the critiques and acknowledgement of failures sometimes may help, eventually, in generating improvements.

Anybody who has had a challenging therapy experience and found a way to make it work -- that would be interesting to hear about, too.