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Default Sep 14, 2021 at 12:15 PM
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Years and years and years ago, my parents and I met a psychiatrist who claimed that he could cure me through "Three-Generational Family Therapy". He was also an expert family therapist. He told my parents about this type of therapy, and desperate for help, my parents agreed to pay him to come to our home and conduct Three-Generational Family Therapy sessions with my family and I. We conducted twelve sessions total with him, and we conducted four sessions without him because he had said from the beginning that families can do this type of therapy on their own. What a scam artist. He scammed my desperate parents out of their hard-earned money, promising that I would be cured. He even wrote a book about this "cure" for emotional disorders. In the book, he claimed Three-Generational Family Therapy could cure many disorders from early psychosis to oppositional defiant disorder. But when my family and I were seeing him on an almost monthly basis, he claimed much more. I asked him if he could cure Autism, and he said that he has cured it. He even said at one point that whatever disorder I had, these sessions would cure me. So he was saying that it did not matter what psychological disorder I had; the sessions would cure me of whatever it was. Wow. And here I am, almost fifteen years later, with a consistent diagnosis of Schizophrenia and Social Phobia. Wow. Just wow.

I will admit that the sessions were extremely therapeutic for me; probably the most therapeutic sessions I had over the years, but they did not cure me, like he promised.

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Default Sep 14, 2021 at 03:31 PM
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Wow i had the same type. What a joke. Had a therapist that promised the world and i had devastating consequences to myself and my family. She had me so convinced. The sad thing is she is still practicing.
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Default Sep 14, 2021 at 03:35 PM
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Wow. We have bad luck.
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