to be clear: this is an anti-therapist account. therapists serving low income adults and children are cool. if you have a private practice and charge over $100 an hour for emotional attunement I don't like or respect you<3
I'm not as well read here as I should be but I've read Adorno and Fromm's criticisms of psychoanalysis and the inferred offshoot of modern psychotherapy and: hanging a shingle to accumulate wealth downstream of harm just prolongs the harm. $225 to listen for 45 minutes? Fuck you.
Oh no the person you worshipped has a flaw? And not some cutesy spin-it-into-a-virtue "flaw" but an honest-to-goodness this-sucks-about-them flaw?
Oh noooooo. I'm soooo shocked that a human being has one of those.
I'm so mad dude it's so obvious if you're not being fucking deliberately dense about the last hundred or so years of world history. EMDR's first proponents were VA psychiatrists who wanted a mechanical solution to rampant PTSD.
I read some of Body Keeps the Score but more relevantly I've read van der Kolk's research studies and man, you don't get famous in this biz without being a hack who's intentionally obtuse about study design
Common transference dynamic I encounter: middle aged women who assume I agree with them based on their projections are suddenly incapable of managing their annihilatory impulses toward me upon discovering I have my own mind.
to be clear: this is an anti-therapist account. therapists serving low income adults and children are cool. if you have a private practice and charge over $100 an hour for emotional attunement I don't like or respect you<3