Or, I don't know, if I was dragged to court, I would mount a defense like this. Some people need help. And it needs to be available. Really. And what does the help boil down to? My current take on that question can be explained using what is a central concept in most methods of psychological counseling:
The patient = someone with object relations issues.
The therapist = someone who can "ally" with the patient to improve said relations. That's the hypothesis, and basic idea as near as I can tell:
So that's it. The therapist helps you make sense of your object relations. There are lots of ways to explain what therapy does or how it works, but this is a fine starting point and pretty perspicacious. That is to say, it has a "excellent" perspicacity rating.
It is a good thing they do, because having fucked up object relations creates suffering, or something. I really don't get what the point is.
Why?
Because I'm not your fucking therapist. Settle your own object relation issues. Or don't! It's the festival of clowns forum. Good god I can't believe this has to be explained.
btw, love lots of you all's posts. I think this is a perfectly fine siting, fuck what the psycho-nannies out in "the Hall" are whispering. Fuck them. Would. Nurse's tits.