Discarded therapies
In the June 23 Rocky Mountain News, there appeared a column by Sharon Begley about psychotherapy, “Words will never hurt?/Some psychotherapies make matters worse.”
Begley sites two examples of destructive psychotherapy: critical incident debriefing, and the process of “bringing out hidden identities, called alters, through hypnosis” for dissociative identity disorders.
The latter was common practice ... 20 years ago, and the former was popular about 10 years ago. I don’t know any therapists still using these strategies today.
Psychotherapy can be destructive, but it’s more likely destructive when the current standards of practice are not followed.
Michael E. Holtby, Denver
Licensed clinical social worker
psychotherapy by social workers. wonderful
Posted by on June 29, 2007 05:39 AM"Psychotherapy" is fraudulent as are alleged therapists. They do little more than prey upon people. Most are more screwed up than any clients they see. Worse, society gives them legal standing and power in court.
Posted by baddog on July 1, 2007 09:12 PM