There Are No Therapists/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

** The (darkly) amusing thing here is that everybody except maybe the original poster is missing an important point: some people are ''not'' helped by therapy. There's an entire family of conditions--personality disorders--where, frankly, therapy makes it '''worse.''' There's also the simple fact, which is supported by some interesting peer-reviewed studies, that ''forcing'' therapy onto people can actually be worse than not having any. The optimum results actually come from having therapy available, but not ''required''. In fact, allowing the person to choose their therapist is also likely to result in better outcomes. (There's several reasons, ranging from the fact that the chemistry between a therapist & client is highly important to the outcome to the ''very'' simple fact that it's miserable to find yourself stuck with a therapist whom you ''know'' is a quack.<ref>I've never had that inflicted upon me, which is good, because I would be rather [[Girl Withwith Psycho Weapon|pointed]] about wanting the quack away from me.</ref>)