From its very invention, therapy has been inextricably intertwined with personal history.  Freud began with a technique of free association designed to elicit hidden feelings his patients had towards their parents.  Though his writings are extensive, his basic theory is very graspable: people are ashamed and afraid of how they feel about their parents, so they’ll go to great, often destructive lengths to hide it. By this tenet, the next step writes itself; If you can get patients to say their secrets out loud, they’ll be cured of the burden of carrying them.  It made sense at the time. So much sense, in fact, that it has been carried forward to this day. But is it right?