Quoteonlymehi underdog, you said in the title for you post about filing complaints, how does this fit into your experience? My experience concerning filing complaints and getting help from therapists with no connection to Social Therapy has been extremely gratifying. To start, it was so validating to have such tremendous support and encouragement -- especially from my "new" therapist
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Well, theory based on your expriences versus a person going and trusting a therapist are very different animals. I just went through horrible therapist abuse of power and would not want anyone else to go through the same. People are vulnerable. Underdog
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i am very happy that this technique has worked for you. I agree that informed consent is a BIG issue. But i think the issue of informed consent is very sticky in this situation. I am not stranger to this subject, so i would never advise such a thing unless i had direct personal experience with it. the new T which i see now would never advise such a thing to those with my dx but that does not mean
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This may or may not work for somethings but for any form of self injury I highly doubt it. People self injury for a variety of reason in a variety of ways -- most of which is done in private. Do you know what it takes to trigger self injury? Sometimes the client doesn't. For those who self-harm in a dissociative states this is BEYOND dangerous. Only one trigger could unleash an avalan
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QuoteAcid ReindeerBlue, did he say something like, he would physically restrain you from hurting yourself? I had read about this as a way to cope with compulsive handwashing, etc. as soon as you get the urge you get forced not to act on it and after enough repetitions the urge will die down. to me that sounds pretty effective. you get used to having the impulse and, no matter how str
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OH! I forgot to mention that this article is also a wonderful tool to help you if you are considering or in the process of filing and official complaint against a therapist or any other profession. You can compare it to the APA Code of Ethics http://www.apa.org/ethics/homepage.html piece by piece when writing a letter or filing a complaint http://www.apa.org/ethics/rules.html#PV3. or any other pr
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Hello! I’m new to this forum but have been quite active on www.ex-iwp.org which is the ex member/survivor site for the Social therapy Group cult whose leader is Fred Newman. They have many other incarnations which includes the New Alliance Party, the International Worker’s Party, the All Stars and the Castillo Theater in Manhattan. Their training center to train new therapists is called the “Eas
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