Not all therapy is a force for good. I give you exhibit A: the actor Jonah Hill | Martha Gill

The star wrote his controlling texts to a girlfriend in language he learned on the couch

Can therapy be bad for you? There's a strange omission in the way we tend to talk about psychotherapy, which has come to be regarded in the culture as a sort of unalloyed good, something almost everyone should have a go at.

We are happy to accept that this interaction - a conversation between therapist and client - is capable of changing our psychology in positive ways, even transforming lives". But we don't extend the logic. If therapy is so powerful, isn't there a risk it can harm us too?

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