Released on = May 1, 2007, 2:59 pm

Press Release Author = The Five Questions You Must Ask Your Therapist.com

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = How do you know if a therapist or workshop leader actually
uses techniques to make you become dependant and depressed?

Press Release Body = Brooklyn, New York (New York Express Press Release
Distribution) May 1, 2007 - How do you know if a therapist or workshop leader
actually uses techniques to make you become dependant and depressed? "Knowledge is
crucial. People can only avoid the dangers if they know what they are," says Gena
Dry author of The Five Questions You Must Ask Your Therapist "Conventional
therapy techniques can be turned around and used to cause psychological harm, it is
difficult to recognize a person who genuinely wants to help from someone who is
skilled in making you believe that they have the answer to your questions about life
or problems.


The therapist I went to was a member of a professional organization and had
certificates on his wall. It took a long time to recognize that he induced
'depression' by making his clients blame all their problems on other people and
their past and he continually made his clients doubt themselves by disagreeing
with their life choices. The more uncertain of themselves they felt, the more they
needed to go back for more and more courses or therapy. I want to make information
about what constitutes bad therapy more widely known," says Gena Dry "It is
essential, we all have questions about our lives and whether it be the break up of a
relationship, or the death of someone close to us, or for another reason, most
people will seek help at some time in their lives. The experience of bad therapy is
all too common but what is more alarming is that my 'therapist'
wasn't simply not very good at his job, he used techniques to deliberately harm his
clients, he is running what is becoming known as a psychotherapy cult. Most people
think of cults as religious groups but nowadays the term applies to the growing
number of psychotherapy and self development workshops where emotional exercises and
mind altering techniques are used to cause a negative emotional state and negative
thinking pattern to keep people dependant and
paying extortionate amounts of money. The harm they cause is not only to the
individual but to their partners and families as well, but the dangers are not being
covered by the media.


The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is holding their Annual
International Conference in Brussels this summer, with 99 speakers from 22
countries, an indication that destructive cults are a world wide issue. The
only recent media coverage on cults was the documentary about Jim Jones that was
shown on TV, but that was an extreme situation that resulted in mass suicide in the
70's. There are an estimated 2,500 cults operating the USA today, according to the
Cult Information Centre, who are causing people psychological harm but the public
don't hear about them because they are not making it into the news by crossing that
line.


http://www.TheFiveQuestionsYouMustAskYourTherapist.com aims to publicize the
excellent resources and information that is available on where people can go to get
help if they think they or someone they know is being affected by bad
therapy. This includes self development workshops or alternative health type
'gurus', any situation where the practitioner or leaders are seen as professionals
with training and experience which means they are in a position
to influence their client's emotional state and thinking. Contributions to resources
of help currently available are welcome. The site has a page where people can sign
the list of people who have been affected negatively."


While considering making a formal complaint, Gena Dry discovered when she spoke to
professional therapy organizations
and cult centers that her story is not unusual. "The lack of regulations protecting
the public and the inability of the professional organizations to prevent unethical
practitioners continuing to operate after complaints have been
made against them, means that best protection is knowledge. If this story is the tip
of the iceberg it's time the dangers are brought to the public's attention." Says
Gena Dry.


Gena Dry's experience comes from her own life story of being drawn into a
psychotherapy cult and research whilst writing her novel The Five Questions You Must
Ask Your Therapist. She was the singer and songwriter in a critically
acclaimed indie rock band in the UK in the early 90's, Gena Dry used her writing
skills to turn an extremely destructive experience into one of survival and
inspiration.

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