re: screwing things up with good intentions by solitaryascidian

November 16, 2008 12:11 PM

dear internet,

Some months ago I went into psychotherapy with this psychologist, and
it's a very long story if I were to go into details, but to sum it up, not only we had a ginormous clash of personalities, but I thought she broke several rules of the profession's ethics code. At at end I told her about what I thought she was doing wrong, and stopped the therapy. I'll write the whole story on the comments, it's just too long to put it here. But a big part of the problems was this questionary she gave me to answer at home, which indicated to me that she was mixing her personal beliefs and her prejudices with her work.
I showed the questionary to my cousin, who then showed it to her psychologist, who became horrified about it and confirmed the ethics problem that I suspected. My cousin's psychologist now wants to denounce her for that.
Now, see, I agree wholeheartly that the woman is screwing up big time. The whole time I spent with her, I felt uncomfortable, and it made me not trust her to talk about several things that I'd like to address with someone less judgemental, but I think there's the potential to do serious damage to someone who went to her with bigger problems than mine, and feeling more vulnerable. I think she's in a position to potentionally ruin her patients lives with misguided advice.
But I'm also aware that she is a nice person, that that's her work, her way to make money, that although she's messing up royally, she has good intentions, and that denouncing her would surely ruin her life.
Should I denounce her?




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