Boo

Indeed — one of my major bugbears about the therapy industry, full-stop.

This is why the anedoctal stories of success need be tempered by the anecdotal stories from those therapists who see these clients 5 or 10 years down the road (when everything falls apart, including those carefully created narratives). I think it highly unlikely a client would attend the original reorientation therapist at that point.

Privacy issues aside, I see this lack of follow-up (and often unwillingness in the profession to acknowledge the lack of reality testing caused by that lack of follow-up) as an environment rife for abuse. Anyway, my 2c.

And yes — familiar with Portsmouth OH… that would be where Nicolas Cummings came into view as the founding CEO of Amer.Biodyne (which eventually became Magellan.) You had kind words about Cumming’s recent book. Mildly interestingly, Cummings also founded CSPP where Nicolosi got his Pd.D. and where Epstein works/ed (at CSPP-AIU) apart from being the senior editor of Psychology Today; the publication (and editor) that created a ruckus after accepting an advert for Nicolosi’s book.

And that was just a 5 minute google about 2 years ago.

What a funny old “Six Degrees of Separation” World we live in… 🙂

Boo

Well, I don’t see anybody as a nobody and I am not particularly worried about her. Apparently she has plenty to say but I will agree it didn’t make much of a contribution. Clearly her mind is made up. Interesting that she keeps reading and posting.