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Can therapy be bad for you? There’s a strange omission in the way we tend to talk about psychotherapy, which has come to be regarded in the culture as a sort of unalloyed good, something almost everyone should have a go at.
We are happy to accept that this interaction – a conversation between therapist and client – is capable of changing our psychology in positive ways, even “transforming lives”. But we don’t extend the logic. If therapy is so powerful, isn’t there a risk it can harm us too?
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