I found this information posted in the articles section above.

This is data about therapists in therapy, collected through a survey. 476 (59.5%) responded. That is a very impressive response rate.

Asked to indicate whether their experiences with therapy, taken as a whole, were "not at all harmful, " "somewhat harmful, " "very harmful, " or "exceptionally harmful, " 9 therapists (2.3%) of the 398 who responded to this question reported that their experiences were very or exceptionally harmful. Most (309;77.6%) found the experience not at all harmful.

Responding to an open-ended question that asked what caused the most serious harm, if any, of their experience with therapy, participants mentioned 144 causes of harm in 25 categories, as shown in Table 5.

Table 5 - Most Serious Harm in Therapy

Cause/No. of times mentioned

Therapist's sexual acts or attempted sexual acts with participant/16
Therapist's incompetence/13
Sadistic or emotionally abusive therapist/12
Therapist's (general) failure to understand the patient/11
Nonsexual dual relationships and boundary violations/10

Those are just the top 5. I am not surprised because these findings mostly align with my conclusions after years of my own experience with this subject.

Therapy as a Requirement in Graduate Training and Licensure

All participants, regardless of whether they had been in therapy, were asked to respond to questions concerning mandated therapy. A surprising finding, especially in light of the fact that only 13% had been required by their graduate programs to enter therapy, was that a substantial majority (70%) believed that psychology graduate and professional schools should "probably" or "absolutely" require therapy for therapists-in-training. A smaller majority (54%) believed that state licensing boards at least "probably" should make personal therapy a requirement for licensure.

70% support graduate schools requiring personal therapy, but only 13% were actually required to do it.

One of the surprising findings was the degree to which participants reported suffering from unhappiness and depression. Almost one out of five revealed that depression or unhappiness was the major problem, distress, dysfunction, or issue that they addressed in therapy, A majority (61%) reported that, regardless of the major focus of therapy, they had experienced at least one episode of what they would characterize as clinical depression. Over one out of four (29%) disclosed that they had felt suicidal, and almost 4% reported having made at least one suicidal attempt.

That's one thing I've always thought should change about the profession--requiring substantial personal therapy. At least for those who wish to treat trauma clients.

This data supports some of the opinions here, like the majority of therapists having MI, the majority not required to undergo personal therapy, etc, so I thought people might be interested. Of course the study is with all it's flaws too, but it's just survey data.

The Therapist As Patient

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This was very interesting. Thanks for sharing.