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Men have an intellectual self-esteem. They tend to see themselves as having the mental capacities to see reality, understand it and draw conclusions from it.
The basic premise of therapy is that mental patients do not have an accurate grasp on reality, which is a very humiliating and condescending premise to start with.
Humiliating things can be tolerated if they are useful. For example, I would accept to be utterly humiliated by a kung-fu master to learn good kung-fu.
However, there is no good evidence therapy is useful for ugly males. Which adds injury to insult. If you repeat the cycle, it begins to qualify as psychological torture.
Finally, therapy is not a falsifiable system. You can't prove a therapist wrong - and the most dishonest therapists will use that to their advantage, always redirecting failure on their patient.
I have several suggestions for psychotherapists who read this forum.
- Get familiar with evolutionary psychology and the objectivity of physical attractiveness.
- Get familiar with the modern dating market.
- Don't assume from the start that a pessimistic idea is necessarily wrong.
The basic premise of therapy is that mental patients do not have an accurate grasp on reality, which is a very humiliating and condescending premise to start with.
Humiliating things can be tolerated if they are useful. For example, I would accept to be utterly humiliated by a kung-fu master to learn good kung-fu.
However, there is no good evidence therapy is useful for ugly males. Which adds injury to insult. If you repeat the cycle, it begins to qualify as psychological torture.
Finally, therapy is not a falsifiable system. You can't prove a therapist wrong - and the most dishonest therapists will use that to their advantage, always redirecting failure on their patient.
I have several suggestions for psychotherapists who read this forum.
- Get familiar with evolutionary psychology and the objectivity of physical attractiveness.
- Get familiar with the modern dating market.
- Don't assume from the start that a pessimistic idea is necessarily wrong.
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