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That book should not be taken seriously. Very much pseudoscience.
Well, it had a bunch of the answers I'd been looking for all my life, since therapists won't ever just come out and tell you any of that.
Do you think all of psychology is pseudoscience, or just the stuff that hasn't made it into the DSM yet? Who are you to say that a therapist with years of research experience doesn't know what they're talking about?
I'm not, but a quick search tells me the Canadian Journal of Psychology called it "arguably the most serious catastrophe to strike the mental health field since the lobotomy era" and I'll defer to an expert on this.
That's quite a claim. I'm sure the industry generally does not want to stop numbing people with black-box drugs. That's way easier than actually trying to heal people.