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Originally Posted by stopdog
In a book by Ann France describing her therapy experience (Consuming Psychotherapy) she makes the following statements: “I am now not at all sure that vulnerable people should be exposed to psychotherapy. This implies that … most of those who need it may not be sufficiently resilient to benefit from it, given the strain it actually causes … psychotherapy … can be harmful, without there being any very clear way of knowing in advance whether this will happen … It can merely be the replay of past traumata … which leads to nothing … The dangers in such a perilous undertaking … provided the genesis of this book … it works best with the healthy”.
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That sums up my experience well. It provided no relief but added all kinds of strain and stress and magnified all the problems I started with, including declining health. It's an important point, that therapy itself causes huge strain. This is usually explained away as part of the "work".
And it did replay and magnify past miseries. And yes there was no way to know in advance what would happen, notwithstanding all the nonsense they vomit out about evidence-based this or that.
It was a pointless exercise that ended in a fireball.
I reject the idea that some people
need it.
Never heard of the book, will try to get a copy on amazon.