Yes it’s the bare minimum that therapists go through their own therapy.
Like, I don’t even understand how it’s not a recquirement for every single therapist everywhere.
Does being in therapy make them better at their job? Absolutely not. I mean they’d be worse if they hadn’t gone but that’s a pretty low bar.
For instance my therapist states on her website that she’s gone through her own psychoanalysis (she’s a psychoanalyst herself).
The thing is, she isn’t particularly insightful she’s gotten defensive several times and even yelled at me at some point in session, all things any reasonable client should not expect from a therapist who’s gone through therapy.
But who decides when therapy is over? A therapist can simply decide «*well I don’t need therapy anymore*» even when they clearly need a lot more.
Who decides that therapy is no longer necessary? It’s even more elusive with psychoanalysis because it’s mostly «*my father did this, my mother did this*» ********.
The whole thing is subjective and there is no way for a client to assess whether the therapist is sane enough and has worked on themselves enough.
There is no guarantee.