I was in prison a while back. During the intake process prisoners were advised by those who were, supposedly, there to help them, often there own attorneys, to sign up for as many therapy classes as they could - alcohol, drugs, sex offense, anger management, etc. Signing up for those classes never helped that I could see and attending those classes had the unwanted by-product of producing labels. Go to an alcohol class and you were an alcoholic, drug class and you had a drug problem, anger management and you had anger problems, sex offense and you were an offender who could never be helped but still had to go to classes as long as you were on paper. The focus of the classes was to get the prisoner to admit to as many things as possible otherwise they were in 'denial.'. Occasionally an additional prosecution came about from admissions in these classes. It seemed obvious most of the time the 'therapists' had no respect for their clients and were only getting a paycheck. I admit prison therapy is not the same as therapy outside prison but I think the principle is the same: If you seek treatment for it you have a problem with it and the label is yours to keep. The client is a paycheck for the therapist and the longer the therapy the more income for the therapist. Just my opinion of course. |