It’s difficult to avoid the suspicion that much of current psychiatric ‘therapy’ is nothing more than advice to constantly pick at a scab until it gets really infected. It’s a pleasant surprise to find an article in the New York Times that comes to pretty much the same conclusion.

One of the psychologists interviewed in the piece tells of working with a woman who said she was a sexual-abuse survivor and schizophrenic. “She had been in so much therapy and told her story so many times, and it reinforced her feelings of being sick. She’d been terribly infantilized by the mental health system, a system that tells women to recover by walking around clutching teddy bears and crying…With this woman, we never asked her about her past.”

It’s an important article, and well worth reading.