Full of bad information regarding therapy
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“I totally agree with apiary on the flaws of the first piece about therapy. Their completely inaccurate summaries of the facets of mental health care and modern day mental health practices and techniques were absolutely appalling to me - that an NPR show would get away with so little research and tons of misinformation on a subject was shocking. I definitely lost some respect for NPR for hosting this show. I am not a therapist, but I have seen therapists off and on for around 10 years and have read many books by psychologists.
Here is an email that I just sent to the show:
I just listened to the first part of your first show via podcast, and as someone who has been seeing a therapist on and off for the past 10 years, I found many serious flaws in how you summarized modern day therapy practices. It was clear that you and your staff did not spend enough time researching how therapy works. I wonder why you didn't spend a few months seeing several different therapists before declaring yourselves experts on the subject and making broad - and incorrect - generalizations about the practice. Here are the issues I have with this piece:
1) Stigmatizing therapy: There was a moment when the hosts were speaking hypothetically that one of them might need to see a therapist, and the host in question felt the need to add something along the lines of, "not that I would need to see a therapist." Mental health is so stigmatized in this country that the people who very desperately need help do not seek it, and become harmful to themselves and other as a result. As someone who has been seeing a therapist for many years, I can say confidently that most people in this country could benefit greatly from seeing a therapist regularly - just because you talk to a therapist does not mean you are crazy or that there is something wrong with you. We live in a much more isolated society than other cultures and it is socially not acceptable to discuss our problems or show our emotions, so most of us don't have healthy outlets for dealing with our emotions/thoughts in a healthy way. When you make a comment like that it just further stigmatizes mental health care as being only for the clinically insane.
2) There is no superior mental health school of thought: You talk about CBT as being this "new," superior method of therapy, when in fact it is not that new, and the only reason people who are unfamiliar with therapy think it is superior is because it is the only type of therapy that is measurable using the scientific method. I can attest there have been significant shifts in my perspective when I dig into my past using traditional Freudian talk therapy. Once I understand where a mental habit originated I experience relief from it. There is tremendous value in exploring WHY we think the way we think and how our mental patterns came to be formed the way they are.
3) Therapists do not just use one method of therapy: Most therapists do not just do one form of therapy - most of them employ several modes of therapy, including Freudian, CBT, AND mindfulness depending on what the client needs. And mindfulness is not a new concept in therapy. The entire premise of the therapeutic process is to become more aware of what you are thinking, and many therapists strongly recommend mediation. In fact, you can't find a "mindfulness" therapist - that would basically just be a meditation teacher. You didn't even mention some of the newest practices in therapy, like EMDR. If you were trying to do a show on cutting edge therapy practices, you totally missed the ball.”Read full review »
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