Bad therapy is traumatizing to many and somebody should be doing something about it. Thus far, inherent in the problems of attachment issues, comes a complex problem to solve. I don't think it will ever be able to be done perfectly, but then again, neither is parenting. The people who do get hurt, no matter how many or how few, even if it is just one, that is too many.

I can't see a future where therapy for attachment issues is harmless. I think that there needs to be some kind of committee or something composed of the therapists who do this kind of therapy right and patients who have been wronged, and patients who know what good therapy looks like should be heard. I think that it should be mandatory for a third party to come in and assess the situations where the patient is escalating and/or the therapist is failing. This person would have to sift through the information to rule out black/white thinking on the patient's part and countertransference on the therapists part, etc. I would LOVE to see the BPD label drop out of existence.

If you could change how the system currently works, what would you do? I'm just wondering if anyone has thought of anything that would help.