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Originally Posted by maybeblue
If you were going to write an "informed consent form" to let new clients know the potential risks of going to psychotherapy, what would you put on it? Do you think that there is a good way to quantify those risks? As in percentage of people who are harmed vs. helped?
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I could write about the bad effects I have had but it would only be my experience. There are some researchers in the UK who have been studying harm and risks in therapy from multiple respondents and hopefully they may have some useful data in the future.
What particularly bothers me now is that I
trusted, maybe much too blindly and naively, my therapists and the institution of therapy. I thought they
should be trustworthy, and therefore I treated them as if they were, and I thought that if I did not trust them it was an issue of mine, not theirs.
However, I think that more about the responsibilities of the client in the "relationship" could be spelled out and may have helped to prevent or reduce the harm that happened to me.