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Originally Posted by stopdog
I can guarantee if those people had been honest and said there was only a 60% chance they would know what they were doing = I would have walked out and saved myself a great deal of frustration. There are studies that put the failure much higher -plus those guys do not study their failure/harm rate nearly enough. The therapists were not on my side - I did not go in with sides. All I ever wanted to know was how did it work and what was supposed to be going on.
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Agreed that they don’t study their failure/harm rate nearly enough.
It sucks that they weren’t able to explain what was supposed to be going on. It’s also possible that it didn’t help you because the therapist(s) and you did not have a good connection. There’s all kinds of ideas about how and why therapy works but a lot of the research suggests that whatever kind of therapy you’re doing, the strength of the therapeutic alliance is the main predictor of success.
That seems logical to me. I mean therapy at its core, any kind of therapy, is about learning right? You learn best in an environment where you feel respected and safe enough to try something new.