A parody about experiences of patients who where treated with psychotherapy on the long-term in Switzerland

Last Updated on January 28, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org

Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org

has previously discussed long-term mediators from Asia. Several aof those have been declared to be saints later on:

What did the Saint Milarepa, the Saint Niklaus von Flue, the Saint Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche & Ajahn Chah eat?

In India, there are teachers who teach you how to become enlightened, which is according to the Buddhist teachings the same as to be completely mentally healthy. It takes 12 years of hardship, as Sadhuru explains, who is one of these teachers from India:

But how is it when we visit a psychotherapist in Switzerland?

Is it not the goal as well when you visit a psychotherapist to become completely mentally healthy?

What can he offer to you? What is your experience with it? Did you hear of patients who shared their experience whith you? Write it in the comments below.

Peter has heard of user experiences as for instance the following:

My psychotherapist has said to me:

After 10 years:

„You have come now since 10 years to my therapy, and I still was not able to help you“.

After 12 years:

„You came now since 12 years to my psychotherapy. You want also to different other psychotherapists, and you have tested other therapies as well. And we really don t know if there is still another cure for you.“

And when your psychotherapist goes into retirement, did you also experience that he said to you:

„I have no reason to doubt about the diagnosis my predecessor gave to you“

And can it not happen that when you all the same continues to visit your psychotherapist

he stops talking to you

And the treatments which are offered in India seem not to be available in Switzerland from your psychotherapist. Your psychotherapist does not know anything about these treatments. Or they says to you:

„Ah, does this treatment exist as well?“

Since is after all not the patient who is to blame?

Is it not the duty of the patient to tell the medical doctors when he is healthy?

Or more precisely, when there are changes in his mental health?

And when you start a discussion about mental health, your therapist ask you:

What does actually mental health mean? And when is a person crazy?

And we finally do not find the answer to this from our psychotherapist, but from the World Health Organization (WHO) which defines:

Mental health is a state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community.

What is our experience with long-term psychotherapy in Switzerland? Write it in the comments below.

Has the teaching how to heal a patient so that he is completely mentally healthy not been given to a majority of the Swiss Psychotherapists?

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