BDSM is unhealthy!?!?!?!?

[fetishdj]

I think the definitions of what constitutes a paraphillia are somewhat mutable and a lot depends on who the therapist is and who wrote the guidelines on how to interpret the data in the DSM. The trouble with psychaitry is that symptoms of pathology listed for diagnosis are not as clear cut as they are in medicine and in medicine they are often not very clear cut at all.

Sounds like the therapist is prejudiced against alternative lifestyles. This may be because of training or whatever but you still need to feel safe with a therapist - you should be able to share everything with them without fear of judgement and they should be able to supress their own personal feelings enough to not make it obvious to you how they feel.

Out of interest... anyone out there in BDSM land actually a qualified therapist? Could be a lot of business there for them in kinky people wanting help...

[denuseri]

I think the definitions of what constitutes a paraphillia are somewhat mutable and a lot depends on who the therapist is and who wrote the guidelines on how to interpret the data in the DSM. The trouble with psychaitry is that symptoms of pathology listed for diagnosis are not as clear cut as they are in medicine and in medicine they are often not very clear cut at all.

Sounds like the therapist is prejudiced against alternative lifestyles. This may be because of training or whatever but you still need to feel safe with a therapist - you should be able to share everything with them without fear of judgement and they should be able to supress their own personal feelings enough to not make it obvious to you how they feel.

Out of interest... anyone out there in BDSM land actually a qualified therapist? Could be a lot of business there for them in kinky people wanting help...

I am not a licensed therapist persay alltough we did provide links to some in the Abuse Survivors Sancturary and discussed such in the following thread.

http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=15730