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I would say the healing might take longer but I wouldn't say it would not take place because the therapist wasn't very good.

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I would. In fact it might get worse. It could lead to death. It almost did for me. Maybe it still will.

At one time it was said that of all the mentally ill, one third got better, one third stayed the same, and one third got worse. Regardless of whether they got treatment or not. Every once in a while I hear the same statement. To my mind, that tallies with the fact that there is really no consensus within the profession on what even causes "mental illness". Causes advanced range from childhood psychological trauma to viruses carried by cats. With such a lack of understanding, it is not surprising that many fall into the crevasses.

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If all the doctors are "alike" and my leg doesn't feel like it's healing right, I'm going to look at what I can do myself to fix that; I'm going to rest more, eat better, ask my friends whose opinions I value what they think, ask others with broken legs about their experience, etc.

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You can do this, in my estimation, because you have a sufficient level of self-confidence. I think you underestimate the numbers (myself included) who do not. Some of us were told from childhood on (and sometimes continue to be told) that it is our own fault. I think you vastly underestimate the effect of this kind of suggestion on people. I wonder why you do so.

I may be struggling out from underneath the power of suggestion from those considered to be "authorities." If I am, it has taken me decades -- decades in which I received precious little help (and much, much misdirection) from the "authorities".