From the author: It’s easy for me to talk about such things, because I don’t adhere to these rules and principles, for me they have no value, except as an object for “trolling.” It’s time for “ five minutes of sarcasm.” Anyone who knows me knows that I, without the slightest reverence or aspiration, regard the current state of psychology, psychotherapy and, in fact, “psychologists” as some kind of collective image. Whenever possible, I happily make fun of the strange ugliness of the “inner kitchen”... simply because I can. So, I would like to start with... a chance meeting with a client (or former client) somewhere on the street. You may not know, but for many specialists, in all seriousness, the choice is to simply pass by or turn around and go the other way. Moreover, some (and there are quite a few of them) colleagues consider such a chance meeting a reason to go to confession “supervision.” Next on the agenda, of course, is an appearance focused on the “cult of dullness.” Yes, yes, a huge number of specialists deliberately “beautify” [so to speak] their appearance, their image. For what? And so that, God forbid, the client does not notice that in front of him is not just a “specialist”, but a living person with his own taste in clothes and features of his figure, and on the basis of these observations, “bad thoughts” do not creep into the client’s mind. The degree of absurdity is growing, but... Do you think that’s all that psychologists can surprise you with? Well, no... there will be one more example. And this is one of the brightest “holy-holy-holy-moments” for many colleagues, namely, a session held on the client’s premises, and not in one’s office, and, in principle, sessions anywhere except one’s office cause literally panic attacks and bouts of existential terror. Why? An interesting thing, the argument is incredibly stupid... they say, foreign territory upsets the balance in interaction, and the client’s desire to make an appointment at home or somewhere else is certainly games, whim and resistance; simply put... all this deprives the psychologist of control and power [and where did he even get it... or did he take it for himself...]. The first thing I think about when I seriously hear/read something like this is an analogy with what experts themselves tell clients about the opportunity to improve their quality of life: you need to develop emotional and behavioral flexibility, become more adaptive to changing conditions, be more critical of yourself and approach the tasks that arise in front of you with a creative eye. Similar to hypocrisy, right? The client gets some ideas, which, by the way, are extremely reasonable, but when it comes to himself... oops, then it’s impossible, this is impossible, and God forbid from this... where, one wonders, is flexibility, adaptability, creativity, self-criticism , behavioral diversity? That’s what they are... psychologists; and professionalism, apparently, is an extremely unstable thing, and prone to escape, because it evaporates when the work environment changes, with a brighter external image, or even during a chance meeting with clients. He’s just kind of shy... this professionalism. Psychologists have a hard lot in general... oh, it’s hard… ).