Psychotherapy can be a form of liberation or permenant entrappment unless those seeking its help are educated consumers. These traps involve the false idea that mental illnesses are real, the failure to differentiate between judgments and descriptions, failing to understand the difference between what we are and what we do. We are might not be able to change what we are but we can always choose to change what we do. I will argue that psychotherapy at its best is a form of education rather than a treatment and that those individuals who seek to be students rather than patients can avoid the traps that are built into the so-called mental health system. More can be learned from my book Psycho"therapy" and the Stories We Live By.  Find at store.bookbaby.com/book/psychotherapy-and-the-stories-we-live-by