This week Jeremy takes a look at what happens when therapeutic frameworks evolve from useful models into systems of certainty. Jeremy uses Internal Family Systems (IFS) founder Richard Schwartz (among others) as an example of how authority, insider language, and resistance to criticism can emerge in therapy communities just as they do in religious and ideological movements. Rather than asking whether a popular therapy modality is a bit culty, we ask the more important question of what happens when curiosity gives way to dogma, and how to respond when therapists begin acting more like prophets than practitioners.

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