“This is how therapy can quietly become an engine that keeps people stuck. Patients leave not more capable of tolerating frustration, ambiguity, or ordinary disappointment, but less. They become more fluent in explaining why they feel the way they do while becoming less practiced at changing what they do next.”
Well, sure - if I actually help the patient, she won’t be my patient anymore, and where does that leave ME?
Far better to keep her dependent on me so I don’t have to get a real job.
Sort of like the medical ‘docs’ ... keeping their patients on a string with meds that will (knowingly) cause OTHER *treatable* issues, down the line.
This guy doesn’t sound like one of those, fortunately.