Today's guest Kat shares her experience with a therapist who was unnecessarily cruel in her approach to treatment. In trying to make sense of this behavior, Carrie and Ben consider the research on how and when therapeutic relationships get fractured as a result of divergent interpretations of the same significant events in therapy.

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Show Notes:

• Donate to Save the Children
• Book Review: All Therapy Books
• Significant events in psychotherapy: An update of research findings
• The first sessions of psychotherapy: a qualitative meta-analysis of alliance formation processes
• Very Bad Therapy: Website / Facebook / Tell Us Your Story