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Originally Posted by SilverTongued
In the practical portion of the schooling, we were learning how to have a very awkward and structured conversation which is unlike any conversation in real life. People just don't talk that way but that's how they teach you to engage. So the conversations become stilted and awkward. In some cases, I observed that therapists were creating problems where none existed or making normal behaviors seem "maladaptive."
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Sounds like therapy in a nutshell. System exists for its own sake. Must recruit customers. Sell unbalanced, hierarchical, engineered relationship as special healing relationship. Use fear-based messaging about the cost of not doing "the work". Target the traumatized and marginalized. Inflict subtle abuse and call it "boundaries". Defend the faith with obfuscating, victim-blaming concepts like "transference". Pathologize everything. Claim to "treat" everything. Therapy itself creates new problems. Customer for life.