I had dinner tonight with a friend from a support group who is not of an over-intellectualized persuasion. He had a rejecting experience from a therapist recently -- I didn't entirely realize it until after we had talked about it, but he interpreted the issue, and the therapist's criticism (countertransference?) as all his fault.

I'm glad I have had the experiences here in this forum of getting my feelings validated that something's wrong with therapy, not just me. As we left, he thanked me for helping him see/feel it wasn't all his fault. That had been a very bad, depressing, somewhat devastating and discouraging experience for him.

So, people who post here may be a subset of the whole therapy-going population, but I'm not so sure that we're unrepresentative, either.