Yeah. Definitely a part of it. Therapists aren't infallible. If people are actively trying to deceive them in order to achieve an outcome, it's not always on the therapist. Sometimes they're really, really good at it.

Nobody is focusing on them. Just admitting that they exist.

Automatically assuming that bad patients don't exist is faulty in and of itself. Of course some people don't want to be helped - Not everyone is ready to be helped, and not everyone thinks that they need to be "helped". You cannot help someone that doesn't want to be helped.

Absolutely! Automatically writing people off isn't a great strategy, especially for therapy.

Admitting that bad patients exist doesn't automatically erase the shitty experiences that other people have.

It is studied as a part of the effectiveness. Nobody claimed that there is a high percentage of bad patients. Just that they exist.

How are you going to compel people to conform to the therapy?

You can drag a horse to water. You can't make it drink.

there are definitely well meaning people with bad therapists

this does not mean that bad patients don't also exist

Lying about yourself, missing appointments, not sticking to treatments, general contempt for the process while trying to go through it.

Lots of ways someone can poison their own well.

isnt this just copying the GOP's rhetoric lol

Up here in the canada, we did BEDMAS

Brackets, Exponents, Division/Multiplication, Addition/Subtraction

we're all libs in the end anyway