I think denial has a lot to do with it. AND what seems to me to be the fact that despite intellectual knowledge of that concept people, including therapists, don't know what they don't know, can't see what they can't see, what they/we are blind to.

I went into therapy with a set of blinders, I think, and some limited, restricted interpersonal patterns that therapists fed into to get their egos stroked, and to collect their exorbitant fees. I didn't see it, perhaps the therapists didn't see it.

Therapy IS their religion, to many I have seen, and became mine, too. Ugh.

Rather than anything which helped me become more aware of those dysfunctional, restricted patterns, however, therapy exploited and used them It's hard for me to say the therapists exploited me because I think some, maybe most, didn't see it -- they were practicing the rituals and methods of their religion -- who knew? They apparently couldn't see beyond that.

In order for therapists, or the society at large, to see the danger and ruination this can cause in people's lives they would have to be able to listen and hear what those of us who have managed to escape can tell them. But they won't, they don't, they can't? It conflicts with their self- and/or professional image of "helping" people.