Posted by susan47 on May 11, 2007, at 1:39:18
In reply to Re: what happened, posted by pfinstegg on May 10, 2007, at 8:45:32
I know for a fact just from reading these boards, that people absolutely do get traumatized by their "therapy" and then disappear. But I don't think it's so much the therapist's fault, necessarily, as a huge flaw in the system itself. I suspect the challenges a therapist faces are absolutely immense and the entire system, I suspect, just isn't responsible enough in policing itself to prevent this type of thing happening .. if we weren't so bloody hung up, as a society, on the theory of love and the so-called damage it can do, if we didn't see love as a powerful method of controlling others from a few really bad examples, if we weren't so damn paranoid .. well, how do you get from here to there? What should the end result of every therapy relationship look like? Who's policing the results?
There simply aren't enough practical checks and balances for the protection of everyone .. and because human emotion can make people frail and volatile we're all afraid of it.
And our paranoia makes everyone sick, really really soul-sick. We should all be helping each other, not condemning ourselves for our healthy feelings.
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