THERAPY ISN'T MARRIAGE/IT SHOULDN'T LAST FOREVER

I often wondered why Dr. Richard Geist had patients that came to therapy EVERY day for over TWENTY YEARS! From my knowledge psychoanalysis generally takes three to five meetings a week and requires the amount of time for natural or normal maturational change (three to seven years). Length of treatment varies but psychoanalysis generally lasts an average of 5-6 years. Therapy isn't marriage! Even half of marriages now a days don't last as long as Dr. Richard Geist's therapy!!!!!

Yet in my humble opinion isn't therapy supposed to foster independence? As children grow up and leave their childhood homes, aren't patients supposed to "grow up and move off the therapeutic couch? Isn't it omnipotent for the analyst to have the patient tethered for life to them? And what if the continued treatment had adverse effects, such as the patient developing (for the first time in their life) a substance abuse problem?

I told Dr. Geist he wasn't helping me. I turned into an alcoholic, a kleptomaniac and did pornography all since my treatment with him. I also had been sexual abused by my other psychologist, (Dr. James Barbaria) that Dr. Geist was seeing, along with me. He encouraged this unethical (statutory rape) to happen. My life fell apart in these therapies. I was much more broken from these therapies than BEFORE I started therapy with these two predators at age 40.

I should have known when Dr. Geist told me that he can NEVER RETIRE because his patients can NOT LIVE WITHOUT HIM! How narcissistic is that statement??? Charging $300.00 for 50 minutes 5 times a week and never having patients leave is a nice way to build your bank account. But it is also a way to foster codependency.