Dying to ride As the pro cycling season begins, drug-use scandals continue to explode. A child smoker who quit now fears that the first puff was the worst. An average guy lands his first role in an adult video. People can be helped. But I'm also saying that when they say that, it's proof of nothing, because that kind of belief is built into therapy.
Therapy includes mechanisms to build the client's devotion to the therapy.
The devotion people feel towards therapy is not a defense of therapy. Absolutely well-intentioned, but operating in an environment with very few checks on what they're doing, or what they can do. Their work is highly influenced by the cultural phobias that both they and the client bring with them. It's the people who think they are doing good who have to be watched the closest. Much of psychotherapy is based on accessing and exploring our memories, but most people would admit that memory is a very iffy thing.