My therapist pushes me

WB I'm sorry that you were abused and I'm sorry that your therapist is making you the instrument of her vendetta instead of giving you a space to understand what happened to you.

There are so very many things that are not okay about pressuring someone to report abuse they have suffered. I'm a bit stuck on one of them though:

What universe are these pressure-to-report therapists living in? Their knowledge of the criminal justice system (and this applies to pretty much every country & jurisdiction I've heard of) is really so... Unsophisticated? Naive? Based on an episode of Law & Order SVU?

Seriously. What do they think generally happens when a person goes to the police and reports that they were abused? Especially if the abuse happened years ago? And you have no "evidence" except your word and your PTSD? I mean the conviction rate for that kind of thing approaches nil. And the abused person is very often subjected to the most invasive, re-traumatizing, invalidating, horrifying process of questioning.

So really. I'm sure that there are times that reporting historic abuse has led to positive outcomes. But they are the tiny exception. And DON'T EVEN with arguments about how the system would work better if only victims reported more. If the therapist has a vendetta, maybe she should be a detective, an activist, a lawyer or a politician. But that pressure has NO PLACE in therapy.

I found that living life is the best treatment. There was both some and no value to talking back to my contemptuous therapist because, judging from his response, he only dug in deeper. He learned nothing.

I assume some therapists believe that confrontation will lead to catharsis. I believe catharsis in psychotherapy is a misapplication of literary structure and that the mind isn’t as neat like an authorial device.
http://primal-page.com/cathar.htm

Thank you, I really really needed to hear this right now. Thank you

I haven’t been able to sleep this week after my appointment because of my session this week. I really felt like a disgusting monster for letting this man away with it.

So many people report and up feeling abused all over again! The trauma and questioning and shaming and then it getting thrown outta court for there not being enough evidence.
I mean this happened twenty two years ago for crying out loud!