A hard hitting article that lays bare the problem of therapeutic agendas.

I also know people who have been greatly harmed by therapy when they did not fit the therapists' preconceived notions of normality.

I have a great therapist, but it took me many years to find her. She is a Black woman. Before that I had an equally good one, a white man.

I know that being a White, cisgender, middle-class woman has probably helped me find good therapy.

When I was a teenager in the 1970s, however, I had a terrible psychiatrist who dismissed all my problems and put me on tranquilizers and sleeping pills instead of talking to me.

I thought those days of clueless therapy were over.

They clearly are not.