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Grand Magnate
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#21
I spent a small fortune on therapy and got nothing of value, plus one destructive experience. Many of my therapists used the same sorts of evasions, manipulations, snake oil come-ons, pseudoscientific language, fake diagnoses, etc that you describe. Some are more subtle than others.
No special corporation is needed. Therapists in individual private practice get away with murder. It's a poorly regulated profession that seems to attract psychologically unstable people, there are few consequences for failure and crazy behavior, no informed consent, yada yada yada. |
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Grand Magnate
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If they believe a patient's mental illness is mainly psycho-social, they will drug that patient too. Most people woking in the MH system are operating from a medieval and warped paradigm. Totally backward. There are so many environmental factors contributing to mental illness these days, which psychiatrists and therapists know nothing about. Scary. |
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Grand Magnate
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As for your bizarre opinion that only psychologists are qualified to provide therapy, that's not who provides the majority of therapy down here. Most therapists are master's level clinicians, not psychologists. And guess what - studies show no difference in outcomes associated with the type of license your therapist has. So you're just as well off with an LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) as with a PhD psychologist. __________________ Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. -David Gerrold |
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Grand Magnate
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Because of the number of years, and therapists, and programs, that I tried -- and now, because of my age -- I think it's fair to say the system failed me. I've been out of therapy for almost 3 years, not doing very well but surviving. To what purpose I'm surviving I can't really say. Perhaps one will become clear before I die, perhaps not. |
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Grand Magnate
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The psychologists I have worked with (not as a client, in the workplace) were more unwell than the master's level therapists. I am not keen on psychologists personally for that reason. Psychologists don't receive more training. They are in school for more years, but that is not the same as training. Their extra school time doesn't give them a leg up in terms of clinical acumen, except in regards to psychological testing. Most of it is just research, research, and more research. That has nothing to do with delivering therapy. Track down the curriculums of psychology programs if you don't believe me. They aren't in school for all those years learning how to therapize. __________________ Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. -David Gerrold |
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