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.