I love the idea that it is the human connection part of therapy a la Rogers that really and truly matters.   People connecting and therapists truly trying to help.

 

“In a classic 1961 book the late psychiatrist Jerome Frank of the Johns Hopkins University argued that all effective therapies consist of clearly prescribed roles for healer and client. They present clients with a plausible theoretical rationale and provide them with specific therapeutic rituals, he wrote. They also take place in a setting, usually a comfortable office, associated with the alleviation of distress. Later writers elaborated on Frank’s thinking, contending that effective therapies require empathy on the part of the clinician, close rapport between practitioner and client, and shared therapeutic goals”.

 

Source: Are All Psychotherapies Created Equal? – Scientific American