Category: Psychotherapy

A comment on modern psychotherapy.

People who are ill at ease of (in slightly old-fashioned terms) maladjusted are so – at least when they are young – almost always because they have been abused or failed by caregivers and teachers etc. The abuse may be active; e.g. sexual abuse, or a case of not rendering the kind of love and care which children need. The latter can be even an unintentional failing. Continue reading “Calling the rebels mad – psychiatry and repressive regimes have the same aim [Psychotherapy]”

The vast majority of psychotherapists and counsellors are frauds and con-artists in it for the money and an easy life. It is just not possible when you consider the scale of little lies they have to tell themselves and their clients to see them as misguided do-gooders, however much one would want to.

The literature of psychotherapy adopts a peculiar and specialised language. Like, for example, legal documents, or certain business discourses (e.g. oil futures) the discourse is specialised and makes few concessions to be be intelligible to the layperson. It appears to pertain to a specialised ‘discourse community’. Specialised ‘discourse communities’ use their own language which is often at least somewhat impenetrable to outsiders because they are communicating about a specialised subject which the members of the discourse community have a special knowledge of. They don’t need to take the trouble to add the additional layer of explanation for the lay reader because these are technical documents intended for internal consumption by the community talking about their specialised field. Continue reading “Therapeutic discourse [Psychotherapy]”

Therapists entrap their clients when their clients are at a low point and are emotionally vulnerable. The advertising does this in a completely naked way – focussing on what are, for many people, difficult times in their lives; bereavement, losing a job, splitting up with a partner and so on. At these times peoples’ self-confidence can often be at a low ebb. They are susceptible to the blandishments of the therapists and counsellors. Of course; what people who respond to these adverts really want is a bit of warmth, some companionship. They are lonely. If they had a strong circle of real friends they would not have been browsing the therapy ads. in the first place. And so; they are sucked in. Continue reading “Therapy – [Therapy]”