ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author deals with an important statement which he found on the relatively new Internet web site, "Emotional and verbal abuse in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis". He draws at length on Rosie Alexander's experiences of one-to-one therapy. There is one classic example in Folie of the pathologizing profession-centred therapy regime that is all too common in the therapy world. Alexander describes with great clarity the kind of subjective experiences she was having in the course of the therapy. There are also signs in Folie of pre- and peri-natal dynamics possibly having been triggered. At a number of points in the Alexander's narrative there are additional signs of deleterious effects which, at the very least circumstantially, seem attributable to her therapy itself. The example of material generation given in the "Transference" section, Alexander's text is littered with further examples.
