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When institutions can only offer compromised care they end up calling it best practice, and the patients who do not get better conclude that they themselves are beyond help.

Drawn from what Jonathan Shedler said

SubjectPsychotherapy

Psychotherapy Treatment by conversation between a therapist and a patient, and the arguments about what in it actually does the work.

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What Jonathan Shedler actually said

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  1. Jonathan Shedler

    Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF

    When patients don't get the help they need, they don't come away thinking, I didn't get good treatment. They come away thinking, I am too broken to be helped. They leave more hopeless and demoralized than when they came. That is harm.

    Where this was said

    ↗When Compromised Care Becomes "Best Practice"jonathanshedler.substack.com

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