> If you pay a psychiatrist, you have to worry that they have a conflict of interest. If you really get well, you won't need them anymore. They have an inherent

> If you pay a psychiatrist, you have to worry that they have a conflict of interest. If you really get well, you won't need them anymore. They have an inherent motive to help you only enough to take credit for things going better, not enough to set you free from needing their services. Is that really different to any professional providing one to one services or what not? After all, you could say every tutor in existence has the exact same incentives; the better you do at whatever you're learning, the less you need to see them or pay them for their services. Yet no one really thinks their music teacher or fitness coach or what not wants them to struggle for the extra money. Same goes with driving schools and instructors. The better the student and instructor do, the less the latter get paid. Regardless, it doesn't really work out in quite the cynical way you think it will here. For professionals in fields like this, it's helping people and making them better at what they're learning or asking for help with that boosts their reputation and gets them more business in future.