Are your therapy sessions as smooth as this one? (see video)

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIzm4jiyvXI[/youtube]

My therapy session wouldn't have gone so smoothly. I would have challenged nearly everything the therapist told that guy.

Yeah, the therapist didn't seem very genuine... I've only been to one therapist whom I felt was truly empathetic. It's soo easy to tell when therapists are just doing it as a regular job, when their hearts aren't really in it, or they themselves have difficulty relating successfully to their clients.

This looks WAY too staged/scripted!! !! !! FORGET IT!

I agree that it seems really fake. But there are some similarities there to how my sessions with my therapist went. She used cognitive-behavioral therapy, and I found it really helpful. For someone with social anxiety, it really can help to identify false beliefs, or at least beliefs that blow situations out of proportion.

I found this so funny because it reminded me so much of a therapist I once had who used similar techniques. He really used to tick me off by answering my question with another question, but he was really a great help overall.

They both seem like college-aged actors (I'm only talking about "Tim's" session because that's where I stopped).

I don't see the point of paying someone $100/hour to teach you all these things when you can look them all up online for free. No wonder so many psychologists don't respect their patients.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortions

I'm hell to therapists. I destroy their self-importance within seconds of the start of the first session, by questioning THEIR wrong assumptions and core beliefs.

It's one thing to understand the concept of cognitive behavioral therapy, and another to actually apply it to deeply ingrained beliefs about yourself and about others. There is a reason they're called "automatic thoughts." Sometimes you need someone outside yourself to point out these false beliefs.

Who says psychologists don't respect their patients? I've known many psychologists (because my parents are psychologists), and I've never gotten the sense that they don't respect their patients. Bear in mind that I have had the advantage of hearing them talk about patients (in general terms obviously to protect confidentiality) outside of the clinic setting, with other psychologists. If they were going to express lack of respect for patients anywhere, they would likely do it in that setting. I've heard psychologists express *frustration* about working with certain populations (for example, schizophrenics, because the prognosis is often poor and they often feel powerless to help), but never disrespect.

Perhaps this is a false belief *you* have which is influenced by your own skewed perceptions of others' motivations and feelings.

I never felt lack of respect from my many therapists. Incompetence was the general ailment.

I have had experiences with bad psychologists and good psychologists. The bad psychologists plain lied to me; one of them assured me that antidepressants would make me more intelligent, another one told me that she was going to send me off to see another psychologist who was gonna put my head inside an MRI machine and based on the scans they were going to tell if I had depression. Since I don't believe that a person who seriously believes such preposterous claims can manage to become a psychologist, and I am assuming that they were real psychologists and not phonies, the only cogent conclusion is that they took me for an ignorant or underestimated my level of intelligence. I also had an experience with another psychologist who was extremely unprofessional. She refused to read me the statement of confidentiality (she asked me why I cared) and failed to tell me about the side effects of antidepressants, after I specifically asked her to tell me that information. I have had bad experiences with psychologists, so naturally I am biased against some of them.

Oh hell no, I practically wish my therapy sessions could go that smooth. It really dosent seem real, it was probably acted out. I dont do well with therapy mainly cause Im stubborn minded as hell. Even if I wasnt, it wouldnt go that well. My last therapist was a damn b***h who probably didnt know s**t about AS. I will question almost everything they tell me. I can never seem to have a real conversation with my therapists.