'Help, yes. But therapists? From all I've read and heard psychotherapy has no scientific nor proven therapeutic benefits and can result in exploitative, dysfunctional power relationships every bit as bad as those experienced by
practicing premies. (If this sounds OTT, try reading Geoffrey Masson's 'Down with Therapy' - written by an ex-Freudian.)'Without being an expert on this subject, I can quite see that psychotherapy is capable of being very exploitative, as you say.
It could, for example, depend for its apparent value on establishing that the therapee has some basic (previously unknown) problem which necessitates digging up masses of unnecessary past material to affect a 'cure'.
Psychotherapy seems to me to be a growth industry which replaces the past ability of people just to talk to one another as friends and other humans.
Certainly, many psychotherapists I know seem to be more in need of help than the people they attempt to treat.
Good human loving response to one another seems to me the answer to much at the end of the day.
Bests to you,
Tempora
