This is a review of Paul Maloney’s book criticising the Therapy Industry. Maloney is a practising clinical psychologist. His criticisms[...]
Category: Psychotherapy
Avoiding choice pointsAvoiding choice points
0 CommentsIf you study the messaging of large US companies towards their customers it soon becomes apparent that one strategy they[...]
The Big Lie at the root of therapyThe Big Lie at the root of therapy
0 CommentsThe big lie of therapy is that you are at the mercy of your ‘unconscious’. This alleged dependency on the[...]
Anti-friendsAnti-friends
0 CommentsTherapy has monetised friendships. In an economy-society in which everything is treated as a source of profit and financial gain[...]
Acquiescent in powerAcquiescent in power
0 CommentsTherapy positions itself on the basis that “all problems are internal”. All problems are explained as being due to the[...]
Therapy can never helpTherapy can never help
0 CommentsThe starting point for therapy is that you should focus your attention on yourself. On your emotions. On your past.[...]
There is nothing wrong with youThere is nothing wrong with you
0 CommentsTherapy shares the same pedagogical model as modern factory education and, for that matter, the model of pharmaceutical “treatment” of[...]
The goal of therapyThe goal of therapy
0 CommentsTherapy is about helping people feel more comfortable. It aims to help them feel less “distress”. Let’s leave aside the[...]
When therapy is a ‘way of life’ it is not a scienceWhen therapy is a ‘way of life’ it is not a science
0 CommentsDuring the course of therapy a therapist will have to gloss over a multitide of evident signs that their theory[...]
Are you well today?Are you well today?
0 CommentsSomeone called me up this morning – from a recruitment agency. (I work contracts so I get a lot of[...]