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Originally Posted by TishaBuv
A therapist is like a stockbroker? I don’t understand how.
A stockbroker has expertise in investments and a license to sell them. They give expert advice, albeit motivated by their own personal gain, and they sell you an investment getting paid by commission. They do have a fiduciary responsibility not to do something unconscionable to the client.
How does a therapist compare to this???
I do understand what you are saying though about getting scammed by the therapist’s motivation for their own gain.
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Here's the link that stopdog posted in Interesting Psychotherapy Articles:
http://www.lianalowenstein.com/artic...ultClients.pdf
The part about the stockbroker is under 3) Retain.
This is really interesting because it was knowledge I had about the stock market from listening to my dad when I was a child that allowed me to understand and be careful about what stockbrokers were telling me and advising me to do after my late husband died, shortly before the dot com bubble burst. If I had listened to them, I would have been in deep you-know-what.
I didn't know better about therapy, having been introduced to it as something I could rely on as a teenager.
The article is by a therapist about dealing with the "educated consumer" of therapy.
I think, unfortunately, that's something that every client needs to be able to try to do these days. "Stockbrokers" is all we've got.
In the financial world, there are now registered investment advisors who are supposed to develop financial plans and act in the client's best interests. Of course, sometimes they don't -- and then it is recognized as unethical or incompetent, possibly criminal. Some people are able to make money but are not financial whizzes, so it's a service that is needed. Maybe someday there will be something like that in therapy. Seems like it may be needed there, too.