Resources for further inquiry into harmful therapy.

. This list is compiled from 8 years of this blog and other forums and websites.

. The inclusion of a link doesn’t endorse its validity by the writer or participants of this blog. Please read critically. I largely tried to avoid articles that critiqued psychotherapy only to sell more therapy or another modality or faith, but likely was unsuccessful.

. Categorization is somewhat arbitrary, a faint way of creating some  organization. Descriptions are below most links.

. I have no financial ties from this blog, so commercial links only are out of convenience. Beyond Amazon, other sites to search used or out of print books  include  Bookfinder, Abebooks, Biblio, Alibris, AddAll, Justbooks.uk and Usedbooksearch.co.uk. Bookshop.org is a new book source that says it supports independent booksellers.

. Try your local library’s e-resources to access paywall journals and publications. Your school and sometimes alumni affiliations can offer database access.

. Feel free to report broken links and suggestions for new ones.  Dead links often can be retrieved through https://archive.org/web/ .  Though this blog will not  promote an individual’s practice, relevant articles and books are welcome.

.  A thousand thank yous to Eve at therapytheclientside.invisionzone.com/  for her invaluable contributions in starting and compiling this list.

Some Resources for Clients

https://therapytheclientside.invisionzone.com/

Therapy reality and bad therapy, The client’s side community forum

https://trytherapyfree.wordpress.com/links/

Resources page for Try Therapy Free blog

https://www.therapyabuse.org/

Therapy Exploitation Link Line

https://www.therapyabuse.org/resources.htm
https://www.therapyabuse.org/RS_Podcasts.htm

Resources page for TELL’s web site

http://tanadineen.com/writer/mvpdf.htm

Online authorized copy of Tana Dineen’s Manufacturing Victims

http://www.advocateweb.org/

AdvocateWeb is a nonprofit organization providing information and resources to promote awareness and understanding of the issues involved in the exploitation of persons by trusted helping professionals.

http://therapyconsumerguide.com/

Marina Tonkonogy’s extensive guide to therapy and its pitfalls

https://www.reddit.com/r/therapyabuse/
Reddit group discussing therapy abuse

https://www.bacp.co.uk/about-therapy/ask-kathleen/

The British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy’s “Ask Kathleen” service for therapy clients who have concerns about their therapist or treatment.

https://www.madinamerica.com/

Science, Psychiatry and Social Justice

https://www.willwebeheard.org/
Will We be Heard (mission to make mental health services safer.)

https://melissainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Don.HOW-TO-SPOTacceptedversionnovember13.pdf

How to Spot Hype in the Field of Psychotherapy: A 19 Item Checklist

https://thoughtcatalog.com/ioana-casapu/2017/02/if-your-therapist-does-these-20-things-you-should-fire-them/

When to fire your therapist

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/07/what-the-therapist-thinks-about-you/?_php=true&_type=blogs&emc=edit_tnt_20140707&nlid=253625&tntemail0=y&_r=0

What the Therapist Thinks About You” by Jan Hoffman, NY Times 2014 Reading clinical notes.

https://www.quackwatch.org/

(This blogger disagrees with some of its assessments but finds this is a thought-provoking resource nonetheless.)

https://unsafespaces.com/

Highlighting abuse and safeguarding issues in psychological therapies.

https://psychrapereporter.wordpress.com

Psychiatric and rape reporter

http://www.stopbadtherapy.com

Stop Bad therapy

http://www.stopbadtherapy.com/test/therapy.shtml

Evaluate your therapy

http://www.survivingtherapistabuse.com/treatment-abuse-checklist/

Treatment abuse checklist, Disch, 1990, 1992

http://www.survivingtherapistabuse.com/

A blogger’s story with many resources

https://web.archive.org/web/20180226085514/http://website.lineone.net/~vex/How%20Therapists%20Abuse.htm
How therapists abuse their clients
This valuable, now-archived article also was saved on this page:
http://ravenclawwit.tumblr.com/post/144163136325/ways-therapists-abuse-their-clients

http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/warning-signs-of-bad-therapy/

Excellent list of warning signs and 10-year consumer discussion

http://jassytimberlake.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-figure-out-when-therapy-is-over.html

How to figure out when therapy is over, Friedman, 2007

http://www.fmsfonline.org/links/therapycampbell.html

Hiring and firing a therapist, campbell, 1994

http://www.antipsychiatry.org/

Resource page by and for psychiatric survivors. (They disclaim any religious affiliation.)

Psychotherapy Research and Journals (the hard research and the speculative mythology)

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a7b7/3212b3edcfc4ba62ebc03920e92ad5c6f7e3.pdf

Why Ineffective Psychotherapies Appear to Work: A Taxonomy of Causes of

Spurious Therapeutic Effectiveness (Scott O. Lilienfeld, Lorie A. Ritschel, Steven Jay Lynn,

Robin L. Cautin, and Robert D. Latzman)

http://clarkep.faculty.yosemite.edu/subjects/science/Mind%20Games.%20Psychological%20Warfare%20Between%20Therapists%20and%20Scientists%20%20By%20Carol%20Tavris.pdf

Mind Games: The Warfare Between Therapists and Scientists, Carol Tavris

https://faculty.fortlewis.edu/burke_b/Counseling/CS%20Readings/SciAm-PsychotherapyonTrial.pdf

Psychotherapy on trial

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/feb/27/psychologists-bmc-psychology

Weaknesses of psychotherapy research

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/health/study-finds-psychotherapys-effectiveness-for-depression-overstated.html

Effectiveness of talk therapy is overstated, study says, Carey, 2015

https://teachpsych.org/page-1784686/6375500

Avoid the dangers of psychological hype: studying the history of psychology as a corrective, Lilienfeld, Dobbs, 2018

https://www.childtrends.org/?programs=cambridge-somerville-youth-study

Intervention and youths

http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/the-mystery-of-the-missing-experiments

Dodgy data in psychotherapy research.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4979245/

Evidence-based practice and psychological treatments: the imperatives on informed consent, Blease, Lilienfeld, Kelley, 2016

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d3c4/6bbc883d66f9c04c24a5a41950e62f4ad975.pdf

Clinician Interventions and Participant Characteristics That Foster Adaptive
Patient Expectations for Psychotherapy and Psychotherapeutic Change, Constantino, Ametrano, Greenberg, 2012.  Client expectations affects outcome.

https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/127954/1/2016_Trachsel_M_Paternalism.pdf

Paternalism, placebos, and informed consent in psychotherapy: the
challenge of ethical disclosure,  Blease, Trachsel, grosse Holtforth, 2016

http://davidgratzer.com/reading-of-the-week/reading-of-the-week-is-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-the-gold-standard-for-psychotherapy-jama-on-psychotherapy/

Is cognitive behavioral therapy the gold standard for psychotherapy? David Gratzer summarizes a 2017  paper by Leichsenring and Steinert in JAMA.

http://www.archivespp.pl/uploads/images/2018_20_3/31Malus_Archives_PP_3_2018.pdf

Therapists study their response to failure, Malus, Konarzewska, Galińska-Skok, 2018

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/06/26/what-if-a-sugar-pill-was-just-as-effective-as-psychotherapy/

“What If the Sugar Pill Was Just as Effective as Therapy?” (John M. Grohol, PsychCentral)

The conclusion was that there is no evidence that the benefits of psychotherapy are greater than those of placebo treatment. The summary is available here:

“An Analysis of Psychotherapy Versus Placebo Studies” (1983)

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6714436

http://blog.dansimons.com/2013/07/pop-quiz-what-can-we-learn-from.html

What can we learn from an intervention study?

https://mindhacks.com/2013/08/20/dont-panic-but-psychology-isnt-always-a-science/#comment-75147

“Don’t Panic, But Psychology Isn’t Always a Science.” (2013)

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/1555602

Suicidal adolescents and treatment

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/36910/title/-Positivity-Ratio–Debunked/

“Positivity Ratio Debunked (2013)- Two psychologists and a physicist take down a 2005 paper proposing a ratio to gauge human happiness.”

http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/psychological-treatments-that-cause-harm.25417/

“Psychological Treatments That Cause Harm.” Abstract of Scott Scott O. Lilienfeld article as discussed on the Phoenix Rising Forum, 2013

https://www.psychotherapy.com.au/fileadmin/site_files/pdfs/Transference_and_Countertransference.pdf

Transference and countertranference: opportunities and risks as two technical constructs migrate beyond their psychoanalytic homeland, King and O’Brien,  2011. A call for considering transference and countertransference outside the realm of jargon and theory.

http://anp.sagepub.com/content/43/9/787.full

“The Elephant on the Couch-Side Effects of Psychotherapy” (Michael Berk, Gordon Parker, 2009)

https://www.texcpe.com/html/pdf/naadac/naadac_fte1.pdf

Famous Therapists Errors

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323665451_Unwanted_Events_and_Side_Effects_in_Cognitive_Behavior_Therapy

Unwanted events and side effects in cognitive behavior therapy, Schermuly‑Haupt, Linden, Rush, 2018

http://www.safranlab.net/uploads/7/6/4/6/7646935/hill._impasses._96.pdf

Therapist retrospective recall  of impasses in long-term therapy: a qualitative analysis,

Hill, Nutt-Williams, Rhodes, Thompson, 1996

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-30/december-2017/talking-failure-therapy-and-beyond

Talking therapy failure and beyond. A conversation across the Atlantic, between Dr Tony Rousmaniere and Professor Miranda Wolpert.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(16)30075-X/fulltext

Failure as an option, Wolpert, 2016

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10503301003645796

Client and therapist views of contextual factors related to termination from psychotherapy: A comparison between unilateral and mutual terminators

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2762228/

Early Withdrawal From Mental Health Treatment: Implications For Psychotherapy Practice

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1457&context=theses

Masters thesis on “premature termination,” including “client “un-readiness” to change.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-positive-thinking-be-negative/

Can Positive Thinking Be Negative?

https://www.scottdmiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/The-Outcome-of-Psychotherapy-2013.pdf

The outcome of psychotherapy: yesterday, today, and tomorrow, Miller, Hubble, Chow, Seidel, 2013. Meta-analytic evidence shows outcome has changed little over the past 40 years despite overwhelming support of psychotherapy and a dramatic increase in the number of diagnoses and treatment approaches.  Advocacy for feedback informed treatment.

http://www.antipsychiatry.org/psychoth.htm

The case against psychotherapy, Stevens

http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2014/12/18/will-following-positive-psychology-advice-make-happier-healthier/

Will Following Positive Psychology Advice Make You Happier and Healthier?” by James Coyne, PhD, 2014

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0269881107086283

Uncritical positive regard? Issues in the efficacy and safety of psychotherapy

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/29002419/4979245.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Evidence-based Practice and Psychological Treatments: The Imperatives on Informed Consent , Charlotte R. Blease, Scott O. Lilienfeld and John M. Kelley

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24607768

Abstract: “Reporting of harms in randomized controlled trials of psychological interventions for mental and behavioral disorders: a review of current practice.” (Abstract, 2014\

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5835722/

Raising Awareness for the Replication Crisis in Clinical Psychology by Focusing on Inconsistencies in Psychotherapy Research: How Much Can We Rely on Published Findings from Efficacy Trials?

https://societyforpsychotherapy.org/most-psychotherapy-research-probably-isnt-reproducible/

Most psychotherapy research probably isn’t reproducible

https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/10/clinical-trials-underreport-harms-antidepressant-medications/

Clinical trials under report harms of antidepressant medications

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/27/study-delivers-bleak-verdict-on-validity-of-psychology-experiment-results

Study delivers bleak verdict on the validity of psychology experiments

https://www.nationalelfservice.net/treatment/psychotherapy/psychotherapy-trials-should-report-the-side-effects-of-treatment/

Psychotherapy trials should report the side effects of treatment, Lanford and Laws, 2004

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221755141_How_to_Define_Find_and_Classify_Side_Effects_in_Psychotherapy_From_Unwanted_Events_to_Adverse_Treatment_Reactions

How to define, find and classify side effects in psychotherapy from unwanted events and adverse treatment reactions, Linden 2012.

https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/gab38/faculty-profile/files/americanPsychologist.pdf

A study of trauma interventions, Bonanno, 2004

http://www.dgapractice.com/documents/meehl_case_conferences_adapted.pdf

Why I do not attend case conferences, Meehl, 1973. A decades-old cry for critical thinking in evaluating psychotherapy cases.

http://clinica.ispa.pt/ficheiros/areas_utilizador/user11/44._do_we_know_when_our_clients_get_worse.pdf
Do we know when our clients get worse? Hatfield, McCullough, Frantz, Krieger, 2010

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kate_Romine/publication/326633714_Deference_in_Psychotherapy_Influences_How_Clients_Complete_Outcome_Measures/links/5b59ff20aca272a2d66cbd63/Deference-in-Psychotherapy-Influences-How-Clients-Complete-Outcome-Measures.pdf?origin=publication_detail
Deference in psychotherapy influences how clients complete outcome measures.
A dissertation, Romine, 2018

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.905.9245&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Client deference in psychotherapy, Rennie, 1994

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0137864

Does publication bias inflate the apparent efficacy of psychological treatment for major depressive disorder? A systematic review and meta-analysis of US National Institutes of Health-Funded trials,  Driessen,  Hollon, Bockting, Cuijpers and Turner, 2015.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/30/444789771/studies-may-overstate-the-benefits-of-talk-therapy-for-depression

Studies May Overstate The Benefits of Talk Therapy For Depression,  Hamilton, 2015

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1348/000711299160112

How counselling psychologists view their personal therapy (abstract) Williams, Coyle, Lyons, 2011. Found that 27 percent of counselors report some negative effects in their own therapy.

https://breggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/iatrogenic.pbreggin.1983.pdf

Iatrogenic Helplessness in Authoritarian Psychiatry, Breggin, 1983

https://breggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/psychotherapyas.pbreggin.1971.pdf
 
Psychotherapy as applied ethics, Breggin, 1971

https://works.swarthmore.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2022&context=fac-psychology

Blowing in the wind: 70s questions for millennial therapists, Marecek, 2017. Discussion of 1970s feminist concerns around therapy.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00641/full

The Prevalence of Pseudoscientific Ideas and Neuromyths Among Sports Coaches,  Bailey, Madigan, Cope, Nicholls, 2018

https://www.srmhp.org/0101/raison-detre.html

THE SCIENTIFIC REVIEW OF MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE Our Raison d’Être, Lilienfeld, 2002. Introduction to journal which was active 2002-2012. The bibliography especially might prove useful.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2013/07/why-the-dramatic-rise-of-mental-illness-diseasing-normal-behaviors-drug-adverse-effects-and-a-peculiar-rebellion/

Why the rise of mental illness? Pathologizing normal, adverse drug effects and a peculiar rebellion, Levine, 2013

Critical Drug Studies

https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/488802

(Letter to editor) Antidepressant use prospectively relates to poorer long-term outcome of depression: results from a prospective community cohort study over 30 years,  Hengarner, Angst, Rossler, 2018.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/03/do-antidepressants-work-a-peoples-review-of-the-evidence/

Do antidepressants work: a people’s review of the evidence, Whitaker, 2018.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/12/withdrawal-from-antidepressants/

Withdrawal from anti-depressants compilation from Mad in America, 2016.

 

Harmful and Ineffective Therapy

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/the-shrink-next-door/

The “Shrink Next Door” podcast, Nocera, 2019.
An in-depth study of how a psychiatrist took control of  a patient’s life to exploit him emotionally and financially.

https://www.verybadtherapy.com/episodes
Very bad therapy podcast (net based or through podcast hosts such as Apple, Google or Spotify.)

http://arabpsynet.com/Archives/OP/apnJ9NumenGraiba.pdf
Adverse effects and iatrogenesis in psychotherapy

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/mar/11/mentalhealth.healthandwellbeing

UK Guardian article on hazards of talk therapy

http://www.psychotherapy.net/article/bad-therapy-1-kory#section-the-problem-with-the-A therapist laments lack of training around harmful practices

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/talkwithtenney/2015/05/07/talk-with-tenney-a-conversation-with-robert-whitaker

A conversation with psychiatry critic Robert Whitaker

https://catenary.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/haley1969.pdf

The Art of Being a Failure as a Therapist

https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/

Surviving antidepressants

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2828509/CBT-scam-waste-money-Popular-talking-therapy-not-long-term-solution-says-leading-psychologist.html

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/08/13/interviews-with-100-cbt-therapists-reveal-43-per-cent-of-clients-experience-unwanted-side-effects-from-therapy/

Side effects of CBT therapy, Jarrett, 2018

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Russell_Meares/publication/232709749_The_Persecutory_Therapist/links/55f74a0e08aeba1d9ef69c77/The-Persecutory-Therapist.pdf

Or:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232709749_The_Persecutory_Therapist

(Harmful therapy; access through Research Net membership)

http://www.tanadineen.com/

Tana Dineen’s website

https://www.psychforums.com/anti-psych/

The anti-psych forum (more geared around psychiatry)

http://www.lefnet.hu/resources/userfiles/file/Rihmer/Nutt%20-Psychotherapy.pdf

Efficacy and Safety in Psychotherapy

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/02/therpist-client-relationship-breakup

Ghosting on Freud; Why breaking up with your therapist is so tricky

http://primaltherapycriticism.blogspot.com/

Critique of Primal Therapy

http://psychopathsandlove.com/first-do-no-harm-abuse-and-harm-in-psychotherapy/

Harm in psychotherapy with links

 

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/molecules-to-medicine/have-pain-are-you-crazy-rare-diseases-pt-2/

Difficult diagnoses and the too-eager psych industry

 

http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=21&editionID=155&ArticleID=1290.

Christian Jarrett. When therapy causes harm, The Psychologist Vol. 21, 2008, pp. 10 – 12, available online

 

https://www.bacp.co.uk/bacp-journals/therapy-today/2016/september-2016/transference-love-and-harm/

 Transference, love and harm, Devereux, 2017. Discussing potential harm of adverse idealising transference (AIT).

http://psychotherapyleitrim.blogspot.com/2016/09/psychotherapy-abuse-when-is-it-clients.html

Therapy abuse: when is it the client’s fault? Ferrell (About adverse idealizing transference)

https://1pdf.net/wwwbacpcouk_5855e511e12e8962548645e8

Summary of Therapy Today, Sept. 2016, including Deveraux’s article on adverse idealizing transference.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-advances/article/boundary-violations-in-therapy-the-patients-experience-of-harm/3A04D90B5BD1832871AA608071EA7CB8/core-reader

Boundary violations in therapy: the patient’s experience of harm, Hook, Devereux, 2018

Abstract for 2018 Hook, Deveraux article

http://psychgripe.blogspot.nl/search/label/therapist%20typology

Taxonomy of bad therapists

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-08-10/news/vw-4868_1_sexual-misconduct

A broken trust: Patients who accuse their therapists of misconduct are often left to feel battered by courts, ethics panels, O’Shaughnessy, Los Angeles Times, 1992.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9bdd/bcdcc4945347708c3cfc0c56363ac4253d61.pdf

Patient-therapist sexual involvement: a review of clinical and research data, Hankins, Vera, Bernard, Herkov, 1994.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/us/gay-conversion-therapy-faces-tests-in-courts.html?_r=0

“Gay Conversion Therapy” faces legal challenge

https://docsmith.co/2007/08/how-to-tell-if-your-therapist-is-crazy-part-one/

How to tell if your therapist is crazy

http://psychgripe.blogspot.com/2010/12/therapist-types-narcissist.html

Narcissistic therapists

 

http://blogs.psychcentral.com/relationships/2013/04/20-indicators-for-co-dependency-or-co-addiction/

Psych advice article on co-dependency

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/22286-us-psychologys-misplaced-priorities-expediency-over-ethics

“Psychology Association’s Torture Link Fails “Do-No-Harm Ethics” (by Trudy Bond & Roy Eidelson, 2014)

http://www.popularresistance.org/meeting-the-needs-of-the-power-structure/

“Meeting the Needs of the Power Structure” (by Bruce E. Levine, 2014)

The American Psychological Association’s torture policy.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/26/misjudged-counselling-psychological-therapy-harmful-study-reveals

“Misjudged Counselling and Therapy Can Be Harmful, Study Reveals”

https://www.madinamerica.com/2013/12/10-ways-mental-health-professionals-increase-misery-suffering-people/

10 Ways Mental Health Professionals Increase Misery in Suffering People

https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-therapists-to-avoid-10-terrible-practitioners/

10 therapists who do more harm than good, Frank South

https://www.mentalhelp.net/articles/psychotherapy-and-pseudoscience-five-indicators-of-dubious-treatments/

Psychotherapy and Pseudoscience: Five Indicators of Dubious Treatments

https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/852/bad-couples-therapy

(Introduction: “Bad Couples Therapy” (by William Doherty, 2002)

 

https://theconversation.com/talking-therapies-can-harm-too-heres-what-to-look-out-for-27433

“Talk Therapies Can Harm Too – Here’s what to look out for”; (2014)

http://digest.bps.org.uk/2010/03/can-therapists-tell-when-their-clients.html

“Can Therapists Tell When Their Clients Have Deteriorated?” (Research Digest, 2010)

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/03/10/how-often-does-psychotherapy-make-people-feel-worse/

How often does psychotherapy make people feel worse? (Research Digest, 2016)

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/08/24/first-trial-of-an-act-like-an-extravert-intervention-finds-that-it-comes-with-drawbacks-for-introverts/

The drawbacks of instructing clients to “act like an extravert.”

https://unsafespaces.com/2014/04/17/when-its-not-good-to-talk-adverse-effects-of-psychological-therapies/

When it’s not good to talk: adverse effects of psychological therapies.

https://www.theferentzinstitute.com/2014/05/02/when-therapists-do-harm/

When therapists do harm

http://www.smartmarriages.com/hazardous.html

How therapy can be hazardous to your marital health

https://www.upi.com/Therapy-can-be-dangerous-to-marriage/19471068838755/

Therapy can be dangerous to a marriage, Marano, 2003

http://www.mentor-coach.eu/EN/articles/relationship_therapist_client.html

Article about “good intentions”

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/03/why-cbt-is-falling-out-of-favour-oliver-burkeman

Why CBT is falling out of favor

https://www.salon.com/2014/03/17/9_blind_spots_most_therapists_share/

Blind spots most therapists share

https://jezebel.com/5893364/how-to-tell-if-your-shrink-sucks-and-then-fire-them

How to tell if your shrink sucks and then fire them

https://licensedmentalhealthcounselor.org/2014/02/19/sixthings-therapist-dont-wont-you-to-know/

Six things your counselor doesn’t want you to know, Richards, 2014

https://patch.com/maryland/odenton/what-is-therapist-abuse

What is therapist abuse?

https://www.gulfbend.org/poc/view_index.php?idx=119&d=1&w=1&e=43065

Psychotherapy: what can go wrong (by this blogger)

https://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/signs-its-time-break-your-therapist

Concise consumer article on therapy red flags

https://www.ou.org/life/relationships/marriage/how-therapist-destroyed-marriage-shlomo-slatkin/

Hazards of individual therapy to marriages

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/for-some-girls-therapy-does-more-harm-than-good/

Exploration that therapy can interfere with grief recovery, Wakefield, 2018

https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4jdq/five-good-reasons-to-fire-your-therapist

Five good reasons to fire your therapist, Keppler, 2017

https://www.psychotherapy.net/article/firing-your-therapist

When firing your therapist is therapeutic, Weber, 2016

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.462.3147&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Fringe psychotherapies: the public at risk, Beyerstein, 2001

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/health-it-felt-as-if-he-had-seduced-me-therapists-realise-clients-often-form-strong-attachments-to-1548639.html

It felt as if he had seduced me: therapists realise clients  often form strong attachments, Taylor, 1992

https://energeticsinstitute.com.au/narcissistic-group-dynamics/

Narcissistic leaders and their manipulation in group dynamics, Boyd, 2010

https://selfcarehaven.wordpress.com/2018/05/12/5-signs-youre-dealing-with-a-dangerous-narcissistic-healer-therapist-or-guru/

Five signs you’re dealing with a dangerous narcissistic healer, therapist or guru, Arabi, 2018

http://openknowledge.nau.edu/2346/7/Thomason_T_2016_The_Shadow_Side_of_the_Great_Psychotherapists%281%29.pdf

The Shadow Side of Great Psychotherapists, Thomason, 2016

https://blogs.psychcentral.com/recovering-narcissist/2019/03/5-signs-of-narcissistic-therapists-the-ultimate-covert-wolves-in-sheeps-clothing/

Five signs of narcisstic therapists, Arabi, 2019

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ911995.pdf

Psychological Treatments to avoid, Thomason, Alabama Counseling Association Journal, a complilation of unsupported and harmful treatments.

https://www.brightontherapypartnership.org.uk/can-psychotherapy-cause-harm/

Can Psychotherapy Cause Harm? Brighten Therapy Partnership

https://psychscenehub.com/psychinsights/the-side-effects-of-psychotherapy/

A Synopsis of the Side Effects of Therapy: What Clinicians Should Know, Graham, 2017

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kaylayandoli/toxic-things-therapists-said
30 toxic thing therapists said, Yandoli, 2021

Power Issues 

https://medium.com/@jbeylev/a-contextual-view-on-the-risks-of-therapeutic-authority-223565029bbc

A contextual view of the risks of therapeutic authority, Beyrak-Lev, 2017

http://www.radpsynet.org/journal/vol6-1/milioni.htm

Subtle power signaling in therapy

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/other/schaler6.html

Jeffrey A. Schaler on cult mind-control strategies

https://www.personal-growth-can-be-fun.com/gurus.html

False guru tactics

http://the-counseling-psychology.blogspot.com/2011/12/god-complex-in-therapy-counselling.html

The god-complex in counseling.

https://realitymaps.com/2006/04-falsegurutest.html

The False guru test

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0104562

Self-Deceived Individuals Are Better at Deceiving Others

http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/neuropsico/articulos/humanismo_1.pdf

Examining the notorious Fritz Perls in the Gloria film

http://www.schaler.net/fifth/badtherapy.html

Sadistic technique at a therapists’ conference

http://www.lorinroche.com/dangers/dangers/sadism.html

Hazards of spirituality groups and sadistic leaders

https://avalancheofthesoul.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/what-abusers-hope-we-never-learn-about-trauma-bonding/

Traumatic bonding

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-kerr/how-cults-gain-power-over_b_3998553.html

“How Cults Gain Power Over an Individual: A True Story” by Lisa Kerr, 2013

http://cigognenews.blogspot.com/2012/12/psychotherapy-as-cult.html

Therapy as a Cult

https://www.apa.org/monitor/dec04/ethics.aspx

Sexual involvement with former clients

https://pro.psychcentral.com/private-practice/2011/08/who-is-your-ideal-client/

Who is your ideal client?

http://www.zurinstitute.com/power_in_therapy.html#create

How therapists establish power in therapy

http://psychopathsandlove.com/how-can-you-tell-if-youre-being-manipulated

https://www.icsahome.com/articles/psychotherapy-cults-ethical-analysis-boland
Psychotherapy cults: an ethical analysis, Boland, 1992. Though a specific discussion of psychotherapy cults, its discussion of power and violation might have relevance in individual therapy.

http://homepages.3-c.coop/erthworks/power.pdf

Power in the therapy room, Totton, 2009

https://ezinearticles.com/?The-God-Complex-in-Therapy-Counselling&id=3518317

The God Complex in Therapy-Counselling, Myler, 2010

https://www.headstuff.org/topical/science/heres-tony-robbins-definitely-not-guru/

Here’s why Tony Robbins should definitely not be your guru, Doring, 2018. This is about a well-known guru’s personal transformation show. But is the marketing, promises, suggestions and dazzle all that different than how some therapists sell their services, albeit one-on-one?

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry_Schwartz5/publication/270310314_Dominance_Cues_in_Nonverbal_Behavior/links/5832706808ae102f07338bc1.pdf

Dominance Cues in Nonverbal Behavior, Schwartz, Tesser, Powell, 1982

https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw/papers/iva-short-v3.pdf

Bossy or wimpy: Expressing social dominance by combining gaze and linguistic behaviors, Bee, Pollock, Andre,Walker

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/10/the-psychology-of-victim-blaming/502661/

The psychology of victim blaming, Roberts, 2016

Critical Thinking and Inquiry

http://www.ukapologetics.net/arewemanufacturing.htm

Are we manufacturing victims?  Dineen, 1998 Includes the quote:

One waits in vain for psychologists to state the limits of their knowledge.

Noam Chomsky

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/the-10-commandments-of-helping-students-distinguish-science-from-pseudoscience-in-psychology

10 commandments of helping students distinguish science from pseudoscience in psychology, Lilienfeld, 2005

https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/01/anything-good-out-of-therapy/?unapproved=193850&moderation-hash=ca206075a838a1f0af9efe4c103a9f6f#comment-193850
Can Anything Good Come out of Therapy? Wildhood, 2022

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13243-2004Jun28.html?referrer%3Demailarticle

Three approaches to mental health treatment that stretch boundaries and, sometimes, credulity Boodman, 2004

http://tanadineen.com/writer/articles/ForDistribution/Skeptic.pdf

Psychotherapy: snake oil of the ’90s, Dineen, 2002

http://www.criticalmethods.org/hook.htm

The psychological imperialism of psychotherapy Isack & Hook, 1995

http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/category/C6/

“Therapy Culture” (Sociologist Frank Furedi Website)

https://www.wired.com/story/therapy-broken-mental-health-challenges/
Why therapy is broken, Cummins 2022

http://www.arcaneknowledge.org/science/psychotherapy.htm

Fallacious thinking in “humanistic” psychology

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/a/c/acp103/PSYCH105/How%20to%20Sell%20a%20Pseudoscience.htm

How to sell a pseudoscience

http://www.sulloway.org/Freud&Pseudoscience–2007.pdf

Freud and pseudoscience

https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pseudo.html

Distinguishing Science and Pseudoscience

https://physics.weber.edu/carroll/honors/pseudoscience.htm

Science vs. pseudoscience

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/1/23/14238530/self-help-advice-bogus

I was a self-help guru. Here’s why you shouldn’t listen to people like me.

https://theoutline.com/post/5970/unconventional-wisdom-emotional-readiness-is-bullshit?zd=2&zi=jl3usxmu

“Ready for love,” myth of the wellness industry

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/2019/01/18/psychologists-want-change-how-they-treat-men-thats-problem/

Pyschologists want to change how they treat men. That’s a problem, Satel, 2019

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/01/ce-corner.aspx

APA issues first-ever guidelines for practice with men and boys

https://www.mindful.org/7-common-pop-psychology-myths-might-spreading/

7 common pop psychology myths you might be spreading, Begley, 2017

https://www.ranker.com/list/inaccurate-pop-psychology-findings/rylee_en

14 widely-believed pop psychology beliefs that are total myths, Nucelli

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-sleuth/201201/is-long-term-psychodynamic-psychotherapy-worthwhile

James Coyne’s call for evidence

https://www.wthrockmorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mind20games.pdf

The estimable Carol Tavris takes on therapy myth

https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/09/dear-mental-health-professionals-please-stop-defending-yourselves-and-listen/?fbclid=IwAR1eErRFrMVyEBc5N3dMf9hktMyFuZjyNPaC231UIe1Yh5GojX4dFXsAOzU

Dear Mental Health Professionals: Please Stop Defending Yourselves and Listen, Hunter 2017

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-shrink-tank/201201/oops-another-flawed-report-long-term-psychodynamic-psychotherapy

Criticizing James Coyne and his call for evidence

https://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2014/06/10/salvaging-psychotherapy-research-manifesto/

“Salvaging Psychotherapy Research: A Manifesto” (by James Coyne PhD, 2014)

http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2013/06/25/is-psychotherapy-for-depression-any-better-than-a-sugar-pill/

“Is Psychotherapy For Depression Any Better Than a Sugar Pill?” (by James Coyne PhD, 2013)

https://culteducation.com/

A comprehensive site about cults

http://mentalhealthmatters2.wordpress.com/

Questioning Dissociative Identity Disorder (hot potato topic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmLTLkCBSN8
The toxic world of self-help (video) Jani, 2020

https://aeon.co/essays/psychotherapy-is-meant-to-help-but-what-about-when-it-harms
Bad therapy, Botanov, Williams, Sakaluk, Jarrett, 2022

https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/07/psychs-winning-streak-failure-science-not-success/?mc_cid=cfc4b6723e&mc_eid=9b37931d40
Psychology’s “winning streak” is a failure of science, not success, Simons, 2022

https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/secul/landmark/forum.html
Cults and psychological abuse, Endres, 1992

https://grasshoppermouse.github.io/2018/12/16/seven-reasons-why-major-depression-is-probably-not-a-brain-disorder/

Seven reasons why major depression is probably not a brain disorder

https://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2007/05/10/is-psychotherapy-superstition#comment-18714

Is Psychotherapy Superstition?

http://therapyconsumerguide.com/intimacy-in-therapy-reality-or-dangerous-illusion-2/#.W99l7OJReUk

Page from “Therapy Consumer Guide” on the delusion of intimacy

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200909/why-shrinks-have-problems

Why Shrinks Have Problems

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2014/07/28/the-mistakes-that-lead-therapists-to-infer-psychotherapy-was-effective-when-it-wasnt/

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/the-real-problems-with-psychiatry/275371/

The politics behind the DSM.

http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/the-moving-goalposts-of-mental-illness

The new DSM and pathologizing the normal

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/opinion/brooks-heroes-of-uncertainty.html?src=me&ref=general&_r=0

Conservative writer David Brooks argues about the soft science behind the new DSM.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/08/AR2008020803272.html?sid=ST2008021100863&noredirect=on

The Washington Post, 2008: “Healing a Troubled Mind Takes More Than a Pill” by Charles Barber

http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/altbelief.html

“Why Bogus Therapies Seem to Work.”
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/why_bogus_therapies_seem_to_work/

(In depth version)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wray-herbert/why-psychotherapy-appears_b_5599479.html

“Why Psychotherapy Appears to Work (Even When It Doesn’t)” by Wray Herbert, 2014

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/how-faith-can-affect-therapy/#postComment

“How Faith Can Affect Therapy” (by Ashley Taylor, 2013)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2014/jun/10/physics-envy-do-hard-sciences-hold-the-solution-to-the-replication-crisis-in-psychology
“Physics Envy: Do hard sciences hold the solution to the replication crisis in psychology?”

https://whereistheburdenofproof.wordpress.com/

“Burden of Proof in Healthcare” (2013)

http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/04/being-with-those-in-serious-distress-empathy-compassion-dignity-and-relationship/

Being with those in serious distress “Mad in America” (2012)

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/myths/myth_30.cfm

“Myth #30: It’s Better to Express Anger to Others Than to Hold It In.”

http://www.arachnoid.com/reader_exchanges/can_psychology_become_a_science.html

“Can Psychology Ever Become a Science?” (by Paul Lutus, 2009)

www.elcamino.edu/faculty/rmascolo/Lillienfeld_2010.pdf

Can psychology become a science, Lilienfeld, 2010

http://www.arachnoid.com/trouble_with_psychology/index.html

“The Trouble with Psychology” (by Paul Lutus, 2013)

https://arachnoid.com/psychology_and_neuroscience/index.html

Psychology and neuroscience

http://reason.com/archives/2014/05/27/could-therapy-culture-help-explain-ellio

“Could Therapy Culture Help Explain Elliott Rodger’s Rampage?” (by Brendan O’Neill, 2014)

http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/06/when-talk-therapy-can-cause-harm/

“Talk Therapy Can Cause Harm Too.” (by Jill Littrell, PhD, 2013)

A study debunks the catharsis theory techniques of rumination and anger release which remain bedrocks of many therapeutic practices.

https://www.mindingtherapy.com/getting-rid-of-anger/

The myth of anger

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/08/11/catharsis/

The myth of anger release and catharsis in therapy

http://news.ku.edu/2014/02/17/professor-authors-study-examining-idea-psychotherapy-field-without-expertise#sthash.osmv7ZhX.dpuf

“Professor authors study examining idea that psychotherapy is a field without expertise” (University of Kansas, 2014)

http://old.religiouseducation.net/member/02_papers/hess.pdf

“When Narcissus Teaches: Teaching, Mentoring and the Danger of Narcissism” by Carol Lakey Hess.

http://www.primaltherapy.com/GrandDelusions/GDcontents.htm

The controversial Arthur Janov (primal therapy) critiques other methodologies

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9bgppa/primal-therapy-arthur-janov

How primal scream therapy survived five decades of strangeness and controversy, Hotham, 2016

http://www.psychotherapy.net/article/quitting-psychotherapy-practice

“On Quitting the Practice of Psychotherapy” by Michael Sussman, 2013

http://www.psychotherapy.net/article/multicultural-competence-psychotherapy

“Psychotherapy with Alien Beings: Cultural Competence (and Incompetence) in Psychotherapy Practice” by Laura Brown, 2014

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/what-your-therapist-doesnt-know/517797/

What your therapist doesn’t know

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-all-psychotherapies-created-equal/
Are all psychotherapies created equal? Lilienfeld, Arkowitz, 2002

https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/new-approach-diagnosing-mental-disorders-could-be-alternative-dsm-5

New approach to diagnosing mental disorders might be alternate to DSM-V

https://theoutline.com/post/5970/unconventional-wisdom-emotional-readiness-is-bullshit?zd=2&zi=vpjyiy7a

There is no such thing as being ready for love, Fitzgerald, 2018

https://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2016/01/12-signs-you-are-the-wounded-healer-personality-archetype/

12 Signs you are a wounded healer, Wiest, 2016

https://kspope.com/PsychologyEthics.php

The Code Not Taken: The Path From Guild Ethics to Torture and Our Continuing Choices

https://kspope.com/therapistas/research9.php

Efficacy study of therapists in therapy

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anxiety_n_1670547

Are we pathologizing normal emotion?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5459228/

Is psychoanalysis still relevant? Paris, 2017

https://historypsychiatry.com/2010/03/15/dsm-v-getting-closer-to-pathologizing-everyone/

DSM-V getting closer to pathologizing everyone?

https://web.archive.org/web/20070701154958/http://www.justinwyllie.net/essays/therapy_short.pdf

Critical essay about psychotherapy

https://www.psychotherapy.net/article/self-help-snake-oil

Self-help snake oil, Kraus 2006

https://www.cbtdbtassociates.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/The-Behavior-Therapist-41-1.pdf

The Behavior Therapist Pseudoscience issue, 2018

https://www.psychotherapy.net/interview/preventing-treatment-failures-lambert

Michael Lambert on preventing treatment failures (and why you’re not as good as you think.) Rousmaniere , 2013

https://www.garygreenbergonline.com/w/?p=281

NY Times: The dodo bird is dead. Greenberg, 2013

https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/1135/therapy-and-transformation

Therapy and transformation, Doherty, 2018

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0068/3dcbb3975c1f7c37ffb12998e18528ed00b7.pdf

Situating knowledge and power in the therapeutic alliance, Brown.

http://tpcjournal.nbcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pages-201-207-Sanders.pdf

https://the-orbit.net/brutereason/2014/10/12/therapists-can-be-wrong/

Therapists can be wrong, Miri, 2014

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15299732.2016.1103103

Deconstructing disorder: an ordered approach to a disordered environment, Rosenthal, Reinhardt  and Birrell, 2016

https://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/10-12-29/

Pseudo-Psychotherapy:
UFOs, Cloudbusters, Conspiracies, and Paranoia in Wilhelm Reich’s Pyschotherapy, Morrock, 19994

https://www.szasz.com/freeman20.html

Medicalizing quackery, Szasz, 2007

https://www.szasz.com/manifesto.html

Thomas Szasz’s Summary Statement and Manifesto,  1998.  The late Thomas Szasz’s anti-psychiatry stances radically differed from the mainstream; he rejected the concept of mental illness.  The https://www.szasz.com/  archives a trove of his materials.

http://openknowledge.nau.edu/2346/7/Thomason_T_2016_The_Shadow_Side_of_the_Great_Psychotherapists%281%29.pdf

The shadow side of great therapists, Thomason, 2016

http://www.psychologyintherealworld.co.uk/resources/16_critiques_psychiatric_diagnosis.pdf

https://www.coyneoftherealm.com/blogs/news/how-advice-gurus-sell-more-products-when-corporations-discover-mindfulness-training-doesn-t-work

How advice gurus sell more products when corporations discover mindfulness training doesn’t work, Coyne,  2017

https://www.coyneoftherealm.com/blogs/news/acceptance-and-commitment-therapy-and-positive-psychology-theoretical-integration-or-product-line-expansion

Acceptance and commitment therapy and positive psychology: theoretical integration or product line expansion? Coyne, 2017

https://www.coyneoftherealm.com/blogs/news/psychological-interventions-do-not-reduce-pain-despite-claims-of-proponents

Psychological interventions do not reduce pain despite claims of proponents, Coyne, 2017

https://jcoynester.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/disposing-of-studies-not-showing-psychotherapy-improves-the-survival-of-cancer-patients/

Disposing of studies not showing psychotherapy improves the survival of cancer patients, Coyne 2017.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/08/can_smiling_make_you_happier_maybe_maybe_not_we_have_no_idea.html

Sad Face: Another classic finding in psychology—that you can smile your way to happiness—just blew up. Is it time to panic yet? Engber, 2016

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/jan/11/disasterresponse.medicineandhealth

Warning on the use of disaster counseling, Revill, 2004

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/03/ego_depletion_an_influential_theory_in_psychology_may_have_just_been_debunked.html

Everything is crumbling. An influential theory in psychology may just have been debunked,  Engber, 2016

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/should-therapists-write-about-patients/

Should therapists write about their patients? Greenberg, 2016

https://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/positive-thinking-myth-498447.html

The tyranny of positive thinking, Mitchell, 2016

https://www.newsweek.com/power-poses-dont-make-you-more-powerful-studies-664261

Power poses don’t make you more powerful, Bartels, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/09/health/defying-psychiatric-wisdom-these-skeptics-say-prove-it.html

Defying psychiatric wisdom, these skeptics say ‘prove it,’ Goode, 2004

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/five-fallacies-of-grief/

Five fallacies of grief, Shermer, 2008

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/15/16863374/willpower-overrated-self-control-psychology

Self control is overrated, Resnick, 2018

https://www.history.com/news/autism-theory-refrigerator-mother

Psychologists once blamed “refrigerator moms” for their kids’ autism, Blakemore, 2018

http://feelhappiness.com/personal-development-avoid-dangers/

Avoid the dangers of the personal development industry. “Mikey D,” 2014

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/unthinkable-is-psychotherapy-a-licence-to-deceive-1.2154215
Is Psychotherapy a license to deceive? Humphreys, 2015

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/dec/28/research.highereducation

At last we can abandon that tosh about low self-esteem, Toynbee, 2001

Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Client Blaming

https://www.apadivisions.org/division-39/publications/reviews/negative-therapeutic

A Primer for Handling the Negative Therapeutic Reaction (Book Review) Forester (reviewer)  Seinfeld (book author) , 2003. Therapist, unerring; client psycho in this high-toned client bashing fest.

http://www.psychoanalysis.ie/index.php?id=92

Erudite client-blaming in discussing therapeutic impasse

http://www.lindamartinonline.com/articles/opinion-a-response-to-anna-sands-falling-for-therapy/

A therapist’s embarrassing bashing of an insightful consumer book.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/opinion/19kolmes.html?_r=4&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

A therapist bashes yelp reviews

http://depressiond.org/narcissistic-personality-disorder/

A therapist client-blames the “narcissist”

http://shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/should-i-waste-my-time-in-therapy/?#comment-4510

A blogging therapist belittles a prospective (or fictional) client who flees after one session.

https://www.apadivisions.org/division-39/publications/reviews/working-resistance.aspx

Review of “Working with Resistance,” a book that appears a classic in Freudian, pretentious client blaming.

http://forbiddenpsychology.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/everybody-should-know-then-that-to-step-into-the-office-of-a-psychotherapist/

“Everybody Should Know, Then, That to Step Into the Office of a Psychotherapist…” (by Tomasz Witkowski, 2014)

https://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-tips/15-reasons-why-some-people-dont-find-therapy-helpful.shtml

Why Some People Don’t Find Therapy Helpful

https://emmacameron.com/therapy/should-i-quit-counselling-psychotherapy/

Should I Quit Counseling? (Therapist’s advice: talk to your therapist!)

https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/1076/when-helping-doesnt-help

Handling client resistance

http://www.psychoterapiaptp.pl/uploads/PT_1_2015/ENGverGawedaPsychoterapia2015i1.pdf

Negative Therapeutic Reaction As A Relational Phenomenon (Historic client blaming for “Negative Therapeutic Reaction)

https://psychotherapy.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2005.59.2.149

“I Feel Stupid and Contagious: Countertransference Reactions of Fledgling Clinicians to Patients Who Have Negative Therapeutic Reactions”

https://blogs.psychcentral.com/therapy-soup/2011/04/ten-signs-you-may-be-resistant-to-therapy/?li_source=LI&li_medium=popular17

Ten Signs You Might Be Resistant to Therapy

https://blogs.psychcentral.com/caregivers/2017/01/15-ways-you-are-resisting-therapy-or-recovery/

15 Ways You Are Resisting Therapy or Recovery

https://blogs.psychcentral.com/dbt/2011/08/4-ways-you-might-be-resisting-treatment/

4 Ways You Might Be Resisting Treatment

https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/1076/when-helping-doesnt-help

When helping doesn’t help, Burns, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/health/21mind.html

When all fails, blame the patient, Friedman, 2008

https://psychcentral.com/blog/10-reasons-why-someone-in-therapy-may-not-be-getting-better/

Why Someone in Therapy May Not Be Getting Better

https://www.lenus.ie/bitstream/handle/10147/121474/DropoutRelatedfactorsPSI.pdf;jsessionid=8E74BAC484FAB4F012117ECE22E6378D?sequence=1

Dropout and Related Factors in Therapy

https://www.researchinpsychotherapy.org/index.php/rpsy/article/view/212/187Beyond the mask of deference: exploring the relationship between ruptures and transference in a single case study, Locati, Carli, Tarasconi, Lang, Parolin, 2016

https://sophia.stkate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1670&context=msw_papers

Recognize, repair and resolve: understanding ruptures within the therapeutic alliance, Schmidt, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/04/science/some-patients-arouse-hatred-therapists-find.html?pagewanted=all

Some patients arouse hatred therapists find, Goleman, 1993

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/02/clients.aspx

Deal with clients you don’t like, Baker, 2009

Seven psychoanalytic psychotherapists reflect on the client that didn’t get better, or even felt worse.

Seven psychoanalytic psychotherapists reflect on the client that didn’t get better, or even felt worse, Fradera, 2018

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.513.1744&rep=rep1&type=pdf

The Psychotherapist and the Quest for Power: How Boundaries have Become an Obsession, Dineen, 2002

Therapeutic Technique and Manipulation

https://www.i10.sandler.com/blog/pain

Sandler’s Pain Funnel,  used in sales technique, which has parallels in how therapists sell treatment.

http://www.terrapsych.com/demagogy.html

The demagogy checklist

https://www.healthline.com/health/signs-of-mental-abuse

How to Recognize Signs of Mental and Emotional Abuse, Pietrangello, 2018

https://www.psychotherapy.net/article/the-performing-art-of-therapy

The Performing Art of Therapy: Acting Insights and Techniques for Clinicians, O’Connell, 2019

https://counsellingresource.com/features/tag/series-on-manipulation-tactics/

http://www.schaler.net/psychdishonest.pdf

Creating unwarranted “disorders”

https://www.sulross.edu/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/users/docs/education/counseling-microskills_4.pdf

Glib guide to appearing an empathetic therapist

https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/1137/tuning-into-attunement

Advice of faking attunement

https://scholar.utc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1053&context=mps

What does the client see? A review of the therapists non-verbal behavior, Taber, 1997

https://healthpsychologyconsultancy.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/active-listening-through-body-language/

Using body language to appear empathetic

http://www.emdr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=30

Link to the short workshop training of EDMR practitioners

http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/trust-me-defense-therapeutic-relationship-0531138#comments

“Trust in Me: In Defense of the Therapeutic Relationship,” 2013

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ironshrink/201105/should-you-trust-your-psychologist/comments and https://docsmith.co/2011/05/should-i-have-faith-in-my-psychologist/

Should You Trust Your Psychologist? (Anyone Who Asks For Your Trust Might Not Deserve It)

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/pst/29/3/474/

“Therapeutic relationships and iatrogenic outcomes: The blame-and-change maneuver in psychotherapy.” (1992) The therapist’s strategy to “blame and change,” to scapegoat the client’s friends, family associates as the root of problems.

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/04/clients.aspx

Advice to therapists whose clients drop out

https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=facultypublications

Iatrogenic Symptoms in Psychotherapy. A theoretical exploration of the potential impact of labels, language and belief systems Boisvert, Faust, 2002.

https://www.mastersincounseling.org/counseling/client-rapport/

Rapport building technique.

https://ebrary.net/8759/psychology/strategies_build_rapport_encourage_client_dialogue

Rapport building technique.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.467.8398&rep=rep1&type=pdf

The Corrective Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Process

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-therapy/200807/shouldn-t-psychotherapy-make-me-feel-good

Shouldn’t Psychotherapy Make Me Feel Good?

https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/leaving-therapy/

Article about leaving therapy essentially encouraging unhappy clients to stay.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-things-therapists-wont-tell-you-2013-07-26?page=1

10 things therapists won’t tell you

https://www.unk.com/blog/psychotherapy-techniques-make-your-difficult-client-more-receptive/

Psychotherapy techniques to make your difficult client more receptive

http://www.lianalowenstein.com/articleProfEngagingDifficultClients.pdf

Engaging difficult clients

https://expertpages.com/news/williams.htm

A psychologist complains about malpractice

https://www.psychotherapy.net/article/termination-countertransference#section-therapists-have-feelings,-too

The angst of the fired therapist

https://www.nova.edu/gsc/forms/mi-techniques-skills.pdf

Motivational Techniques and Skills for Health and Mental Health

Coaching/Counseling

https://ct.counseling.org/2010/02/managing-resistant-clients/

Managing resistant clients

https://www.psychotherapy.net/article/therapy-failure

Why Therapists Fail — Schwartz, Flowers

https://www.psychotherapy.net/article/resistant-clients

Resistant clients: We’ve all had them. Here’s how to help them. Mitchell, 2006

https://www.whywesuffer.com/how-to-recognize-good-psychotherapy/

How to recognize good psychotherapy, Michaelson, 2105. A therapy scolds that his competitors simply are too mollifying and  insufficiently deep.

https://psychotherapypapers.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/thomas-anttila1/

The therapist’s love–Thomas-Attila, 2009

Marketing the Psychotherapy Industry

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/how-therapy-can-help-in-the-golden-years/

“Marketing” therapy to older people

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/looking-for-evidence-that-therapy-works/

A paean to Cognitive Behavior Therapy as the true “evidence based” approach

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/opinion/invitation-to-a-dialogue-benefits-of-talk-therapy.html

Psychoanalyst argues for talk therapy over pills

http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/27/can-branding-save-talk-therapy/

Psychotherapy and marketing

http://www.emdr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=30

Link to the short workshop training received by EDMR practitioners

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sham-scam/

“The Self-Help and Actualization Movement Has Become an $8.5 Billion-A-Year Business. Does It Work?” (2006)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/i-hear-you/201710/10-reasons-why-people-refuse-talk-therapists

A big sell of therapy

https://www.talkspace.com/blog/2016/10/why-you-might-feel-bad-or-worse-after-therapy/

Why you might feel bad or worse after therapy

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/magazine/psychotherapys-image-problem-pushes-some-therapists-to-become-brands.html

What brand is your therapist?

https://jcoynester.wordpress.com/2017/05/06/on-receiving-an-offer-to-become-a-certified-quack-emotional-freedom-techniques-eft-therapist/

On receiving an offer to become a certified quack Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Therapist, Coyne, 2017

https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/268/a-brief-history-of-psychotherapy

A brief history of psychotherapy, Butler, Cooper and Wylie, 2012

https://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-tips/15-reasons-why-some-people-dont-find-therapy-helpful.shtml

15 reasons by some people don’t find therapy helpful. On-line marketing pitch with a dose of client blaming.  How dare the client think she can help herself or that she knows better than the therapist.

http://privatepracticesuccess.com/retaining-clients/consumers-and-therapy/

Consumers the therapy, Grodzki, 2013. Working with the “educated consumer.”

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nznq3g/when-your-therapists-side-hustle-is-professional-cuddling

When your therapist’s side gig is professional cuddling, Rauch,  2016

Blogs and Personal Accounts

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/20/book-review-all-therapy-books
Book review: All therapy books. Blogger  Scott Alexander cracks the code for all “self help” books. Alexander, 2019.

https://trytherapyfree.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/reasons-to-be-therapy-free-part-1/

Blogger’s exploration of the distortions of the therapy milieu and theory.

https://newobs.wordpress.com/category/therapy/

Blog with psychotherapy topics include “Therapists always lie.”

https://newobs.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/therapy_aphorisms/
more from Justin Wyllie

http://wisdomovertime.wordpress.com/

Blogger who covered her therapy experience and other topics

http://therapyisacon.wordpress.com/author/therapyisacon/

A blogger’s journey through the aftermath harmful Gestalt therapy

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/great-betrayals.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&hp

A therapist on great betrayals.

https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/07/23/having-emotions-versus-therapizing-emotions/

Having emotions v. therapizing emotions

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/magazine/08Psychoanalysis-t.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=merkin&st=cs

Daphne Merkin’s “My life in therapy”

http://untherapize.blogspot.com/

A therapy escapee reflects

Books, Book Topics and Other Media

(See page introduction for list of used and out of print book sellers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu5CxJnZqGs
Why psychotherapy is Bullsh*t (Dr. WIlliam Epstein)

https://www.therapyabuse.org/ebook.htm

Therapy Exploitation Link Line ebook

https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-case-against-therapy/Content?oid=873107

The case against therapy—interview with author Jeffrey Masson, Beneke 1988

http://imagitude.com/book-review/book-review-therapy-industry-paul-moloney/

Review of The Therapy Industry by Paul Moloney

https://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/358/html

Interview with Yvonne Bates, author of UK book “Shouldn’t I Be Feeling Better by Now?”

https://iahip.org/inside-out/issue-53-winter-2007/the-trouble-with-therapy-1-clinical-dimensions

Another article on Yvonne Bates

http://joeldiana.com/?page_id=8

On the “Guru Papers”

http://www.antipsychiatry.org/br-thdel.htm

Book review, Therapy’s Delusions by Waters and Offshe, review by Smith, 1999

http://www.psychotherapy.net/blog/title/the-lake-wobegon-effect

Summary of Michael Lambert book

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Games-Persuasion-Indoctrination-Psychotherapy/dp/1590511735

Power Games by Richard Raubolt

http://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Abuse-Health-Professionals-Personal/dp/0802081061/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318114327&sr=8-1

Sexual abuse by Health Professionals by Susan Penfold

http://www.amazon.com/Therapist-Ellen-Plasil/dp/0312903634/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1318114370&sr=1-1-spell
Therapist by Ellen Plasil

http://www.worldcat.org/title/my-doctor-my-lover/oclc/26115640

Library links to VHS of Frontline episode, “My Doctor, My Lover. It’s in the archives of the New York and Los Angeles Paley Center or on a VHS tape through public libraries.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-11-12-1991316194-story.html

Malpractice story on “Frontline” is riveting, Hill, 1991. Preview of “My Doctor My Lover” when it was broadcast.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_dangerous_method/

Movie about Jung, Freud, Sabina Spielrein and bad ethics.

http://www.apadivisions.org/division-39/publications/reviews/therapy.aspx

Review of Richard House’s Therapy Beyond Modernity

https://books.google.com/books/about/Therapy_Beyond_Modernity.html?id=9L0qyJ0yzq0C&hl=en
Richard House book now electronic on Google books

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=David+Smail

Bibliography of therapy critic, the late David Smail

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-Hazardous-Cure-Dorothy-Tennov/dp/0385116578/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1334006062&sr=8-3

“Psychotherapy, the Hazardous Cure.” Though its discussion of women was a product of its time, it well could still apply.

http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing/dp/0307452425

Early chapters talk about treatment being harmful rather than helpful. Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America (by Robert Whitaker, 2011)

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/16/books/therapist-shrink-thyself.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Reviews three books from therapists on therapy include “A Curious Calling.”

http://www.amazon.com/Narcissism-And-Psychotherapist-Welt-Herron/dp/0898623987/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1365482738&sr=8-12&keywords=Narcissistic+therapist

Book, Narcissism and the Therapist

http://www.lulu.com/shop/sarah-richardson-and-melanie-cunningham-et-al/broken-boundaries-stories-of-betrayal-in-relationships-of-care/paperback/product-3214324.html;jsessionid=7206E641EA58FCE864172AE1A4182AB2

Link to UK book, Broken Boundaries.

http://www.salon.com/1999/04/06/therapys_delusions/

On the Ethan Watters / Richard Ofshe book “Therapy’s Delusions.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/21/books/breaking-away-from-the-cult.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

The NY Times, 1990, “Breaking Away From the Cult by Carol Tavris” and “Final Analysis” (The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst by Jeffrey Masson);

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/09/21/in_my_lie_her_false_memories_fuel_painful_memoir/

“Her False Memories Paint a Painful Memoir” by Caroline Leavitt, 2010

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0874176786

William Epstein, Psychotherapy as Religion (2006) (Also author of The Illusion of Psychotherapy)

http://www.amazon.com/Psychobabble-Exploding-self-help-generation-ebook/dp/B00AN4XVZY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1383071764&sr=8-2&keywords=psychobabble

Psychobabble: Exploding the myths of the self-help generation

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Games-Robert-Baker/dp/1573920711/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418526869&sr=1-1&keywords=9781573920711

The head of a university psychology department critiques psychotherapy. Robert A. Baker, 1996

http://forbiddenpsychology.wordpress.com/

Website of author Tomasz Witkowski

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23293/23293-h/23293-h.htm

“Primitive Psychotherapy and Quackery” by Robert Means Lawrence, offered at Project Guttenberg

https://www.therapistuncensored.com/tu-41/

Podcast: The dark side of therapy

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/just-so-therapy

About Paul R. McHugh book, The Mind Has Mountains

http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/article/critical_therapy_culture/

“The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education,” by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes (Routledge)

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/30/books/the-psychology-and-politics-of-anger.html

New York Times review of Carol Tavris’ “Anger, the Misunderstood Emotion.”

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Myths-Popular-Psychology-Misconceptions/dp/1405131128

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Lilienfeld, Lynn, Ruscio, and Beyerstein, 2009

https://www.amazon.com/The-Memory-Wars-Freuds-Dispute/dp/0940322048

Frederick Crews’ critique of Freud’s legacy

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/freud-was-a-fraud-a-triumph-of-pseudoscience/

Freud was a fraud: a triumph of pseudoscience, Hall, 2017. An overview of Crews’ Freud, the Making of an Illusion.

https://www.amazon.com/Controversies-Psychotherapy-Counselling-Colin-Feltham/dp/0761956417/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1545884156&sr=1-1&keywords=9780761956419

Colin Feltham’s Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling

http://library.umac.mo/ebooks/b31685444.pdf

Online book, The Imperfect Therapist—Learning from Failure in Therapeutic Practice, Kottler, Blau

https://www.abebooks.com/9781568218281/Gaslighting-Double-Whammy-Interrogation-Methods-1568218281/plp

Gaslighting, the Double Whammy, Interrogation and other covert methods in psychotherapy and analysis, Dorpat, 1996

https://www.guilford.com/excerpts/lilienfeld.pdf?t

Excerpt: Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology, Lilienfeld, Lynn, Lohr, 2015

https://www.alternet.org/2013/09/when-did-sadness-become-disease-how-weve-pathologized-everyday-life/

Two books about the pathologizing of stress

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281807298_Playing_whack-a-mole_with_pseudoscientific_psychotherapies

Review: Playing whack-a-mole with pseudoscientific therapies, by Jean Mercer, review by Bruce Thyer

https://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141514464/real-sybil-admits-multiple-personalities-were-fake

Real ‘Sybil’ Admits Multiple Personalities Were Fake, Neary, 2011. NPR feature about the book Sybil Exposed by Debbie Nathan. (Also see Nathan’s NY Times magazine article,  A Girl Not Named Sybil.)

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-29/may-2016/craig-against-machine

Review of Craig Newnes’  book Inscription, Diagnosis, Deception and the Mental Health Industry: How Psy Governs Us All

https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/bitter-custody/

Bitter custody, Bundy, Clegg, 2019. Therapists play god in child custody cases.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/mind-fixers-anne-harrington/583228/

Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris, Greenberg, 2019. Review of  Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington.

Alternatives to therapy think 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secrets-of-resilience-1510329202

Secrets of resilience

https://www.feministcurrent.com/2017/12/21/making-political-personal-psychology-undermines-feminist-activism/

Making the political personal: how psychology undermines feminist activism, Happonen, 2017. A feminist activist argues that more contentment might taking action.

https://www.yahoo.com/makers/ditch-the-prozac-take-up-crafting-108671160605.html

“Ditch the Prozac, Take Up Crafting?” (2015)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3674785/

Is exercise a viable treatment for depression?  Blumenthal, Smith, Hoffman 2012

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/for-depression-prescribing-exercise-before-medication/284587/

Exercise for addressing depression

https://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-oconnell/2011/01/how-to-see-a-shrink/

How to see a shrink, O’Connell, 2011. “Feel relieved to be out of therapy’s seductive and suffocating grip. Get a dog.”