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Old Nov 30, 2017, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by BudFox View Post
Most of the insight or advice supplied to me by therapists has been banal stuff, dressed up to look special. Seems the client pays dearly for the occasional insight. And in between is a whole lotta pointless (and expensive) nothingness or pointless and painful drama, that mainly serves therapist needs.

Their training fills their heads with delusions of belonging to a special caste of saviors and savants, when in fact they are just commoners with at best a marginally better understanding of human nature than the rest of us, and at worst a seriously distorted way of relating to the struggles of others.
Right, these kinds of issues are what would need improvement. The fact that your experiences with therapy left you feeling this way is more evidence of that.

One interesting thing I've noticed in life, is that the biggest and most successful companies and organizations are the ones that ALWAYS try to reasonably accommodate the feedback they receive from their customers/clients/members/what have you. I think therapy as a "business model" (since it is a business) is still in its infancy in many ways and in the future should look to places like this and voices like yours to really understand how to create a better experience. There is a hell of a lot of money to be made by the first major mental health organization that learns to operate with that mindset. Because that's a need people have that is really just not being fulfilled regularly enough. I imagine that there are a few therapists out there who can provide that kind of service right now, there's just no sense as a consumer of therapy that it can be reliably expected to be that way, it's hard to know what you'll get from any individual provider and it's hard to get rid of the bad ones since there aren't enough objective measures of their performance. At the very least, for now I think online reviews for therapists should become a bigger thing, I think that would be really nice.
Thanks for this!
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