Candid comments from a T about therapist failures

I wonder if the succession of therapists was harmful or bad, was it a particular method of therapy? Did they all practice in a similar style? Or they all had something in common? Gender? Age? I wonder if there is a particular trait that made them all harmful etc


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If they're in a public system, which usually requires them to collect at least rudimentary outcome data periodically, you can pick out therapists who are much less effective than their peers. You would want to adjust for the type of clients in their caseload and other factors, but even after adjustments you can still see that some therapists have much worse outcomes. There's not been a push to actually get them out of there, though, which is a shame.

For people in private practice, or in small agencies, it's not nearly that simple though.

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Nothing really that linked them. Some male, some female. Some eclectic, some trauma focused. A few psychologists, several masters level Ts.

What was harmful was the way they responded when i said previous therapy had been damaging. They said basically it was not so. Invalidated it. One guy even pressed me aggressively in the 2nd session for evidence of what he called "gross transgressions". The implication being that anything less was of no consequence. No clue about subtle and insidious emotional seduction and manipulation, betrayal, rejection, humiliation, fostering of dependency followed by abandonment. Therapy failure was the main thing i needed to talk about, but therapy failure was the one thing they could not talk about. Go figure...