Likewise, based on responses to my blog, internet conversations and literature I read, therapists largely only become defensive, resistant, angry and patronizing when faced with criticism. They generally wrap in their authoritarian cloaks as if I were one of their patients, incapable of talking peer to peer. And yes, I'm a peer, an adult with life experiences just as they are. I'm perfectly capable of discussing my own experiences or reactions to their writings.

Those harmed can try to communicate our case studies, but I don't see it consumers' role to create new paradigms or fix systems from the outside.

I think it might be helpful though is to remove this distancing, theoretical jargon of therapy to discuss interactions on a human level. Again, I see numerous practitioners almost foreign to that.