Psychotherapists sometimes employ undisclosed esoteric diagnostic systems on patients

Evidence

My psychotherapist said he would use an additional diagnostic tool, and for that he would need my date and time of birth. He then presented me with a chart that identified me as a “projector.” In further treatment, he kept referring to it, saying that my type would never allow me to take the initiative and that I should concentrate on waiting and reacting. The whole thing was a little scary to me, but I trusted him; after all, he was the psychotherapist. I thought, he’ll know what he’s doing. But I felt less and less understood and had the impression that he really wanted to squeeze me into this scheme, and I thus had even less leeway than before. Then I inquired what this diagnostic system actually is and I was blindsided: It is pure esotericism. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 657

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• SHARE: Worth sending to a psychologist or psychotherapist friend — a first-person account of a Human Design ‘projector’ diagnosis happening inside a real therapy practice, showing how authority masks pseudoscience.