Maybe there are (at least) 2 different things that survivors of unethical therapy need? Maybe like the stages that Judith Herman in her classic Trauma and Recovery outlines?

First, is a safe place to explore the trauma. Then, remembrance and mourning. The last stage is reconnection.

There's not a good, generally accepted description that I know of of the kind of trauma that therapy perpetuated for me. "Narcissistic abuse and exploitation" is maybe the closest. But I have enormous problems with that concept. Part of what I think survivors of therapy which harmed us have to offer is a better picture of what damaged narcissism and sense of self is about.

Maybe, that's just my story.

At this point, for me, wanting to get my story out there could be viewed as part of Stage 3, reconnection with humanity. Because, right now, I still feel very disconnected from society. The disconnection is a trauma, one that was taken advantage of, and made worse, by therapists incompetent to help me with whatever I went into therapy with.

It's truly horrible, as anyone else who has experienced it knows.

Kind of like what happens with sex abuse survivors. First you need a safe place to explore it. Eventually, if you're lucky, you get the strength to talk about it in public and expose it -- no longer ashamed of what happened.

For those who want a private group, if you want, I will be glad to participate even though I don't feel the need for it myself at this point. The anonymity of the forum here has been safe enough for me.