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Originally Posted by here today
Your views are alternative to the view of therapy that was presented to me by therapists, by books about therapy, by popular presentations of therapy and therapists in the movies, on TV, etc. They are alternative to the view that therapy and therapists are there to help me, which is something that I was looking for, being in distress at the time.
When one goes into therapy, the "self-evident realities" that you see may not be so apparent. And maybe to some people they seem not so "self-evident" or even if they are, they may seem irrelevant.
But they are a lot closer to self-evident and relevant to me than I would have thought 10 years ago.
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I did not see things this way when I was in the middle of it either. Had no reason to question.
The biz expects compliance from its customers. Any sort of critical inquiry is considered suspect.
They've positioned their product as mainstream. They sell the therapy relationship as the primary means for healing grief, loss, loneliness, trauma, and any behavior or mood that deviates from "normal". A relationship with a close friend or family member is considered "alternative" in this respect.
In reality therapy is a radically unorthodox way of relating to people. The primary way of healing is real life relationships, as it has been for all of human history. Not saying therapy does not have a place.
Allopathic medicine has done same. It's positioned as mainstream but in reality its newfangled and mostly poisonous methods are decidedly alternative to established, sane methods of healing (like eating real food).