I agree that those of us who have experienced therapy trauma and harm have important information that could be used to inform others and prevent further trauma.

I'm not sure how effective individual action targeted at one aspect of the problem will be, however. Although, at least you are proposing one specific action plan and I remain kinda stuck.

I would prefer to expose the underbelly of the mental health profession, which I see as possibly competent and relatively caring members of the profession ignoring and tolerating systemic problems, including bad apples, which harm people who come to them for help and care.

There is a conference (again) this week about sex abuse in the Catholic Church. It's taken such a long time -- are there parallels with that situation that we could learn from? What did it take to get that issue addressed directly? And even now that it is being addressed, it is still hard, apparently, for church officials to take action against their colleagues. The Pope did, this week, call sex abuse an "evil".

I think what happened to me has been evil, too. Maybe not consciously in my case, but in their unconsciousness and denial, therapists have been pretty useless for my situation, despite my best efforts and seeking help that I did not know was incapable of helping me. So, in my case, going to therapy all those years was an exercise in putting myself down, and getting put down further by therapists and the therapy process, which did not help.

It's hard to describe or put a name on it, though, for people who have not experienced it. Maybe that is a place to put some more effort -- collect more of our stories, identify commonalities?