There seems to be a majority reporting positive attitudes, while very few with negative. Surprising, given the numbers of our members here, reporting negative experiences.
If you will, I'd like to make a few points about these therapists.
Firstly, I am referring to those that call themselves psychologists and wave degrees around, to the therapists who set themselves up, based upon a 6 week correspondence source cut out of a comic.
These people are not professionals
I am a registered nurse. I am also trained to be a therapist, indeed, many nurses have job titles where they are called therapists.
My training was based upon international standards. I could meet a nurse from New York, Delhi, Timbuktu and we would all have had, basically similar training.
There is no standard for these people. Some have degrees, even doctorates. But there are no standards. A doctorate that is not based upon standards, is as relevant as the opinions of a drunken sailor.
I was trained to deal with babies up to infant, adults, the elderly. I have no training in adolescence or children. I would never even think of attempting any sort of professional interaction in an area I have not been trained for.
These people have no training standards. There are numerous instances, on these pages, of people reporting that their therapist has admitted they have no experience in the field.
These people have no ethics.
As a registered nurse, like any other professional, I am governed by a system of ethics. I am also a qualified and registered electrician, again, with a standard of ethics.
Trusting yourself, your personal life, even your liberty, to people without ethics is something that, still leaves me gasping for breath.
These people have no governing body.
This is kinda obvious really. To suggest that someone regaling themselves with a degree would even want to be associated with someone armed with a certificate in concealing and therapy, from the upstairs college of Peckham, is unlikely.
What all his amounts to is that you are putting yourselves, your personal life, into the hands of people whose motivations can and frequently are, little more than their own egos and opinions. Even political and religious opinions.
I really feel very sad for people who are so desperate and in need of consolation, that they would, in essence, put themselves into the ministrations of the first person you meet on a street corner claiming to be a friend for a fee'.
It is very gratifying that some have had positive experiences. It is tragic, to say the least, that some have not. There is a member here, who over a number of posts, has described the complete breakdown in the child/parent relationship. Yet their therapist reported back the the mother, details of an interview, which were made in private.
Now if that therapist had an ounce of honesty, they would have simply recorded the entire interview, added on a pile of speculation and fabrication and broadcast it to create maximum humiliation. That therapist is a disgrace, a disgrace to humanity.
Yet, that is not an isolated example, as these pages have show.
It would be astonishing if every therapist was so utterly evil and psychopathic. That some have reported positive experiences is not in the least surprising. A random selection of people will always bring up a few who fit a criteria. But how many people, would ask a person, at random, in a crowd to fix the breaks on their car?
I have heard, here and elsewhere, claims, mostly by Americans, that their state has governing standards!
Would those be the same governing standards that exist in Texas, where the legislature passed a bill, but someone 'accidental' inserted the word 'not'? Or the standards that exist in the UK where Tony Blair lied to Parliament leading to the deaths of a million people?
How exactly are these local standards administered? A check on qualifications? Qualifications that have no standards?
Supervision? Buy whom? What are the qualifications of the supervisors?
Regulations that say you must be nice? Regulations that say you may not repeat, (except in certain circumstances) 'Well, you see, it's like this, but you can't repeat this, I'm building a bomb'.
I'm sorry, but I will repeat the assertion made many times on these pages.
Give only the information that is necessary.
Stick to the point. Don't trust any therapist, no matter what qualifications they claim, with anything that you don't want repeated.
Keep your mind on the subject in hand and keep their attention on the same.
Your only need to get past this gate so you can see the real professionals.
And good luck.
