Posted by Tabitha on March 23, 2011, at 1:54:40
This may be a strange question and a strange place to ask it, but I've looked and looked for some kind of discussion of losing faith in therapy. Something akin to forums for people who have left their church. There are many of these dedicated to various mainstream religions and more cultish ones.
I also know about 12-step backlash. There's quite a bit of literature and discussion on that.
Yet I've never found a book or blog or article or anything on people who just come to the conclusion that they spent a heap of cash and a load of time and attention on therapy, then just lost faith that it had been valuable. And started to suspect it may have been harmful.
The closest thing is recovered memory backlash, but that doesn't really fit what I'm experiencing. (Then of course there's the anti-psychiatry movement of Scientology, but I'm not looking to replace one set of beliefs with an even weirder set.)
I just kinda can't believe it's something so little experienced or discussed. It seems like such a big occurrence to me and I feel alone with it. I don't want to blather on here since this board (I think) is supposed to be for supporting people who still believe in it. Despite all the many threads about people with painful transference and struggles, I don't see folks talking about just losing faith in the whole enterprise, and I don't want to poison the well.
Any ideas?
poster:Tabitha
thread:980953
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