Learned Helplessness & Power in Therapist Abuse (40)

How do you stop a freeze? With warmth. Have a power outage? Restore power.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about power.

Personal power, political power. Power in therapy, and it’s counterpart, abuse of power. How therapy harm survivors restore their sense of power.

I say “sense of” because I think power is innate. Many have been conditioned to forget that and feel small.

At the same time, clients in therapy are supremely vulnerable. T…