At your conventions, and when you return to your practice, please reflect on two questions.
Patients generally seek therapy because they are in emotional distress.
They have a powerful wish to believe that there is a way out of their pain, that they are on the right track, and that the investment of time, emotional energy, and money they are making in therapy was wise and effective. Patients undergoing so-called memory recovery therapy often reported at the time that it was helping them, only to realize later that they had been getting worse. Read their stories on this web site. Just because patients say that therapy is helping doesn't prove that it really is. I believe my patients are improving.