I did work with a good therapist once, but he wasnt a psychologist. It was interesting working with him, all he would do is listen, not give any advice whatsoever, and tell me that I'm normal. I went to him after a breakup and not to focus on the pain, but to identify why i was in a pattern of seeking dysfuctional women. However, I get the feeling I could have achieved the opposite results if I had presented myself as a messed up, angry, paranoid and violent person.

I see plenty of people go in to talk to these people, looking for help, and all they get is a label, free access to a pharmacy of narcotics, and never any improvement.

I could write out an entire phiolsophical treatise about what is wrong with the field of psychology, but ultimately it boils down to a pattern of behavior of a certain architype in terms of who these people are. The result is people going around blaming their life problems on an irrepairable disease requiring medication and are given a new aberrant self identity they can never escape.