Think twice before applying... - Recensione dipendente - Lecturer presso Metanoia Institute

You first face the elegant Victorian building from the outside and you want to think this place feels right for psychotherapy training…. You then walk into the building and you see in the reception area a dirty, worn-out sofa (with load of messy yellowed files stuck on top of it). Life there seems to have paused in the 80s and you want to think that this is just a nostalgic sign that this place perseveres to the ancient, hand-crafted values of psychotherapy, rather than modern technology and facilities ….. and you may manage to hold on to these romantic impressions for a little while, as long as you don’t take your job too seriously, you are not explicitly above average and you are willing to surrender to the initiation/obedience trials for admittance to the dominant sect. But this kind of mask may feel too dehumanising and incongruent for you …. especially when you see what lies behind this scene: of herd of human shadows strangulating anything different to them and squandering quickly the vanishing reputation of what was once a pioneer psychotherapy institute in the 80s…. But the door is always close enough to exit and start breathing again.