Therapy as an "air-tight" system

"Air-tight system" is perhaps an awkward phrase to use here - basically, what I mean is that,

1) There is "no escape" from therapy. For example, if the patient disagrees with the therapist, he is "fighting the therapy". Or if a former patient starts a blog about therapy, she is is "still working through the therapy". In short, everything past, present, and future comes down to the therapy.

2) Therapists pretend that therapy "subsumes" all in life, for example, no matter what other field or topic may be brought up, it somehow falls under the umbrella of therapeutic principles, or at least the principles of psychology. An example of this would be a therapist or psychologist taking a point of view that, say, physics, with its concepts of matter, energy, etc, can be "explained" entirely from a psychological point of view; as if they have no objective or even empirical existence of their own, but instead are totally "constructs of the mind" or some such thing.

This is ironic in light of the fact that one could consider the theory behind psychotherapy to be, to a large degree, a house of cards. And, should this be pointed out to a therapist, he or she either blows the speaker off by saying something like, "oh..you are being too philosophical [or too analytical]"; or the therapist simply changes the subject, redirecting the topic to one of the speaker (patient) herself. Either way the therapist is in this instance showing the attitude of a simpleton who does not recognize the importance or even the validity of any concepts or fields of knowledge existing on their own outside the theories of psychology.

I should mention here that of course, I am not proposing that the therapist spend time in sessions with the patient, engaging in discussions about physics or math or what have you, or that the discussion between patient and therapist should turn into a purely philosophical one. What I am emphasizing here is the nature of the therapist's response to the challenge..it itself tells us something about the therapist and therapy itself.

This is all tied in with therapists' resistance to anything reminiscent of philosophy, a resistance which can be traced all the way back to Sigmund Freud, father of the "talking cure", who himself was "against" philosophy (Freud himself used the term "resistance", but as a reference to his notion that individuals, and society as a whole, have an innate resistance to psychoanalysis).

Further definition of what is meant by therapy being an airtight system will be given in later posts. I shall also later expand on the specific items presented in this post.