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Therapy doesn't do anything for personality disorders. Therapy can't undo the childhood traumas that cause personality disorders. A personality disorder by de
by DarylZero 5y ago
Therapy doesn't do anything for personality disorders. Therapy can't undo the childhood traumas that cause personality disorders. A personality disorder by definition is an inability to change that begins at childhood.
- pizza234 5y agoTherapy is not (necessarily) a solution to the given problem; it can help handle problems. In the specific case of estranged relatives, it can establish some level of communication, which can be a very significant step.
- DarylZero 5y agoA step towards what? Even in the field of psychology* it's generally accepted that personality disorders don't resolve. [*] Psychology as an analog to medical science is also a con job. Psychotherapies don't need to prove efficacy in clinical trials like drugs do. Whenever anybody does bother to do a study like that though (again -- purely voluntary) therapy never shows itself to be very effective at doing anything. But especially not for people with personality disorders.
- pizza234 5y agoTowards communicating between the two parties, which is significantly better than permanently truncating contact. But also prevent certain events/developments. A minimum of progress could avoid, for example, the abusive parents calling the social services, and/or going to court, and/or receiving a restraining order. There's lots of behavior that therapy can (potentially, of course) at least mitigate or teach to handle.