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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you go to a therapist, you tell them your woes but from an extremely biased, first person perspective. The therapist recieves the information from a biased narrator with no perspective or insight into other people the patient may reference.

How would a therapist guide you if she/he spends the entire session validating your perspective?

There are so many people who dig deeper into their dysfunction or selfishness because they’re now being validated by certified therapists. [/quote]

Totally agree.  Depression and other mental illnesses come with "mental distortions" and the function of the therapist is to point these out.  But if they don't involve other members of the family, etc., they cannot determine what is a distortion.  In addition, most therapists do not keep up with mental health research and so fail to emphasize physical habits and other things that could make a difference. - MSW[/quote]

Wow, no. The role of a CBT/ACT therapist  (or even any therapist) is not actually to make judgements about what is or is not a distortion, except maybe in some very clear-cut cases. They are supposed to engage the client in identifying distortions for themselves. Even if the client persists in believing something that is a distortion (and since we are not omniscient everything is a distortion to a certain extent) the goal of good therapy is to decide what would be a good way to  handle that fact.

So for example, I have a firm belief that my partner is a selfish, mean jerk. Years of therapy cannot change this belief. But my therapist did a lot to help me see there are many different ways I can react to and think about this reality. Bringing my partner into therapy for the therapist to judge whether he really is selfish would be totally pointless. [/quote]

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