Any resources on harmful talk therapy?

Hey everyone,

I know this whole forum is mostly about psych drugs. But I was just curious if any of you knows any online resources on how talk therapy can harm. Thanks.

P. S. CopyCat should know something for sure

The mental health system itself is the most common source of messages of hopelessness.Respondents to part two of the survey who had received a psychiatric diagnosis (n=390) overwhelmingly pointed towards the mental health system as the source of messages of hopelessness: http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/12/messages-of-hopelessness/


"Actually, nothing speaks against the participation in a psychoeducative group apart from the political implications of forcing people to accept the legitimacy of the medical model." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoeducation#Possible_risks_and_side_effects

Wiki needs an update to the article on psychoeducation to point out the messages of hopelessness that come from psychoeducation and should also include how NAMI the pharma store front group "educates" familys with messages of hopelessness by pushing the medical model to sell drugs for its pharma sponcers.

NAMI the pharmaceutical store front: http://psychroaches.blogspot.com/2011/09/nami-another-pharma-store-front.html

Sometimes also talk therapy spends to much time digging up bad stuff from the past, I call it "kicking sleeping dogs" when sometimes its best to let sleeping dogs lie. http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Let+sleeping+dogs+lie

WiseMonkey, I'm sure there must be a lot out there on how talk therapy caused a lot of people to think they had been sexually abused in the 90's (I believe it was the 90's). That might be a place to start. I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but if it's along those lines I could try to look up some things

maybe it depends on the quality of therapy, actually i think it does.....John Weir Perry used Jungian psychotherapy to help 85percent of psychotics at Diabasis to recover, similar to humain treatment of soteria house, psychotics calmed down pretty quickly when treated with respect.

I'm not a fan of psychoeducation, I think as a matter of fact it promotes the myths of mental illness and the stigma, its part of the medical model convincing patients to be compliant and trust the discretion of treatment providers, nothing objective about it

Thanks, guys!