I maintain that the basic model is designed to make therapists feel better, and clients feel worse. Training will not change that. The newest flavor-of-the-month approach will not change that. Feedback will not change that, because it's precisely the systematic suppression of the client's true voice that enables the system. Too much honesty is poison to the process.

This plays out in one dyad after another based on my observation. Therapists appear to lash out at their victims on a routine basis when confronted with failure.

If therapists collectively said they merely are paid listeners, nothing more, then it would be honest. But they have a built a monstrous and freakish edifice on top of that, and it needs to be blown to bits, and most of them need to find another line of work and stop playing games with lives.

My opinion.