Are Psychologists manipulative?

[Kellie Martin]

I feel like they want to push their agenda onto their clients and whenever you don't agree with them no matter the topic they write something down on their notepad as a redflag.

Example: I told the psychologist I returned something to the store as they forgot to take 50% of it and wanted it corrected. The reply I got from the psychologist simply was "They are below average, no need to give them extra work." like the hell???

EDIT: Yes, he talks strange like that all the time...I feel like it's just a test to see how I react to the things.

[Devsman]

İlk olarak ⛧ tarafından gönderildi:

Why would someone that makes more money the longer you are ill, try to do stuff that'll keep you ill and never solve your real problems.

It wouldn't make any sense. Now take these feel good pills and don't do or think about anything stressful. Also lets go down the list of every pill, until we find the one thats right for you.

This is all for your benefit of course, oh you have kids? Great, lets see em. What they wanted to transition but never had the courage to bring it up to you. You can thank me later, now heres my bill.

Because of ethics. You have some frauds out there (and not just in psych) but you also have the type who tell you not to come back because you're fine. Like the last one I saw.

[Morkonan]

İlk olarak Pierce Brosnan tarafından gönderildi:

...Example: I told the psychologist I returned something to the store as they forgot to take 50% of it and wanted it corrected. The reply I got from the psychologist simply was "They are below average, no need to give them extra work." like the hell???

EDIT: Yes, he talks strange like that all the time...I feel like it's just a test to see how I react to the things.

""They are below average, no need to give them extra work." doesn't sound like a contextually appropriate sentence. I am going to assume a more appropriate context, given your example.

It sounds as if the therapist was attempting to agree with you or attempting to explore what you thought about the people you interacted with.

I do find it difficult to believe that you purchased something at twice the expected price and it was valuable enough for you to then go back to the store and return it based on that.

Or, were you attempting to return a product you purchased at a discount, but for a higher, more valuable (money) return credit/cash? (Not an unusual tactic for some people to attempt to do with certain retail chains who have notoriously lax merchandise return policies.)


You are seeing a therapist for a reason. They are professional and are being paid to help you. With talk therapy, one of the ways they may try to help you uncover issues is by leading you to discuss certain paths of reasoning or feelings related to something by "manipulating" the discussion to prompt you to explore an issue. So, "yes," a therapist may try to manipulate certain things. Did you think you were just going to sit in a room for an hour, talk, and then pay them for them to do nothing?

PS: If your description was entirely accurate and the quote verbatim, I'd still think you're reading more into it than is warranted. It's really not possible to say that anything unusual was going on here without much more context.

[zeke]

Honestly, from the limited amount of info you've given, it sounds like you should find a new psychologist. Its important that you trust & are comfortable with your psychologist. From the sounds of it, your current psychologist sounds judgmental which is a very bad trait in a psychologist. Its not a ridiculous thing to get a price correction when you were mis-charged for a good (and I say that as some whose worked in retail before). I'm personally doubtful his off hand comment was some sort of "test" to see how you reacted to his reaction.

If you're not finding your psychologist helpful or if he's putting you on 'edge' due to his personal commentary, again, my suggestion to you would be to find yourself a new one.

[Hobbit XIII]

yes, their profession is reliant on people being manipulated by them to enforce in a way what they say and justify what they do.
The more success they have in that manipulation the stronger the profession and those pushing the manipulation becomes.