Posted by Anna Laura on February 18, 2002, at 17:05:59
In reply to The very picture of evil, posted by trouble on February 18, 2002, at 7:35:58
My experience with abusive psychotherapists it's not about hysterical feminists or spoiled princesses, it's about real abuse:
WHAT IS REAL ABUSE? REAL ABUSE IS ABOUT:
1.Being threatened to be sent to a psychiatric hospital (just because I DARED to say the HER majesty the therapist wasn't right).
2. Being compelled to go to therapy session under threat (same as above). When i told her that i couldn't come 'cause there were no buses at that time she told me i had to walk. (i had to walk ten miles).
3. She stated that such a threat never took place just a few days later (this is about denying your own reality)
4. When i insisted, the psychotherapist told me i was suffering from a serious form of paranoid delirium (invalidation again)
I told her that i was going to leave cause i didn't want to put up with that shit anymore.
She told me that if i was going to leave i'd got really sick without her help and that i badly needed to be in therapy for at least ten years, otherwise i ran serious risks of becoming schizophrenic: (WITHOLDING INFORMATIONS)
I had been diagnosed as having a latent form of schizophrenia without me knowing nothing about it. When i asked her a few months before about my diagnosis she told me that i didn't have to worry since i suffered form a mild form of neurosis. I was suffering from major depression instead, but i had been unlucky enough to meet this lady when i searched for help.
Real abuse is about destroying someone else's life when you're supposed to help, it's about invalidating his/her reality and thoughts knowing that this person is too fragile to defend herself.
I could tell about a guy who had been diagnosed as schizophrenic by his psychoanalist, put in a psychiatric hospital against his will for years. His life was destroied.
I could tell you countless of these horror stories, but it would take too long. You could find the movie "Francis" quite instructive (it's a real story about the actress Frances Farmer who got a lobotomy for being rebellious). "Girl, interrupted " could give you a hint also (though i prefer the book).Least but not last, therapy abuse it's about totally lacking of empathy also.
Well, may be the word "empathetically" might sound a bit odd to you, but it's a frequently used word among educated persons, believe me.Thanks god someone is taking care of us, wether is the feminist movement, the ecological movement or the anarchist movement i wouldn't care less, as long as they're defending us from these wackos!
That's why we need the declaration of rights inside the therapy setting written on that site, no matter how stupid and useless it might sound.
As a matter of fact ,we need it as we need the declaration of human rights.
poster:Anna Laura
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