Why does therapy feel less effective the better you understand the cognitive approaches used by psychiatric professionals to treat patients? Also, how can professionals themselves seek effective treatment if this is the case?

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Why does therapy feel less effective the better you understand the cognitive approaches used by psychiatric professionals to treat patients? Also, how can professionals themselves seek effective treatment if this is the case?

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It doesn’t. You are describing some personal experience or a hypothesis built on one. Professional therapists usually have minimum number of therapy hours themselves as condition of licensing and keeping the license, and it is still effective decades into their careers.