Therapist’s blogs Part III: Psychology Today Therapy Blogs

[Mary S]

This site is at https://www.psychologytoday.com/topics/therapy. All the blogs that I have read there allow comments.

The list of blogs in this site does not overwhelm me with things I would find helpful, but there were a couple that I came across that seemed worthwhile:

Does Psychology Work, by Romeo Vitelli (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/media-spotlight/201305/does-psychotherapy-work )

Does Your Therapist Bully You? by Eric R. Maisel (https://www.psychologytoday.com/comment/869924 ) This shows a bit of arrogance from the author at one point, but a couple of commenters pointed it out. It also provided an opportunity to be supportive to other clients having bad therapy.

[Skittles]

I read the one about bullying. Sometimes I wonder if I bullied my therapists.  They never said so. But I would get hugely angry at them for their mistakes and go on about it and really throw the book at them until they admitted they were wrong. I felt like a three yr old having a strop. They saw a middle aged woman being very assertive and angry.

[Mary S]

6 hours ago, Skittles said:

I read the one about bullying. Sometimes I wonder if I bullied my therapists.  They never said so. But I would get hugely angry at them for their mistakes and go on about it and really throw the book at them until they admitted they were wrong. I felt like a three yr old having a strop. They saw a middle aged woman being very assertive and angry.

I'm tempted to say "Good for you!" But not knowing just what went on, I am not sure whether I would approve or not. I often have a problem with getting angry -- I get very self-conscious and ashamed of myself. But sometimes when I do get angry, I say something that really needs to be said. So I am wondering if what you did was indeed saying something that needed to be said, but it seemed like bullying to you. Therapy is often so strange (for me, at least). It's not like anything normal (for me, at least).