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Patricia Ross's avatar

it sounds like you have not been helped by therapy, or even worse, perhaps have been hurt by therapy. You certainly have a mistaken idea of what contemporary psychotherapy is all about, and your analogies comparing therapy to medieval medical practices is inaccurate and false. I know of no therapist, who hasn’t grappled with his or her own mental issues, and the objective with most therapy, except when dealing with florid psychosis, is to uncover unconscious beliefs that no longer serve us. When therapy can help one accept oneself, warts and all, and move from self acceptance to self appreciation, it doesn’t get much better than that.

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