I have found therapy helpful in some ways (learning about myself), harmful in other ways.
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is a little bit of pretty good, mostly objective research, in my opinion, out there. Here's one:
http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/interv...5-lambert.aspx
This quote with regard to people getting worse stands out for me:
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within the therapy itself, it's usually related to some kind of rejection that the person experiences while they are working with their therapist.
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That was definitely my experience.
How can being rejected (or shamed, too) by a therapist cause harm? It debilitated me in ways that perhaps some of you can imagine, some can't, and about which there aren't any references for or studies about, that I know of.