The religious expert.
As you may know from reading this blog, I have often felt that what happened to me in therapy has a lot in common with spiritual abuse. And recently I got involved in a case that falls into that domain. It starts with a religious expert and a wounded seeker, and I'm sorry to say that's all I can reveal. I'm not working as a therapist, only as an advisor, but the underlying confidentiality is the same. Anyway, I need to get clear in my thinking, so I'm going to revisit my theories now, because it is really important that I understand what might be going on. So, when a religious expert, or a therapist has an all encompassing mono-theory (a mono-theory is one that provides a rigid framework to explain and describe problems and their causes) and they have a desire to nurture - at the moment I think this *desire to nurture* might be a critical factor? - this situation isn't necessarily going to lead to an abusive relationship. But there may well be, or perhaps there m...