+1 I'm pretty sure multiple rounds of CBT made my anxiety disorders worse. The approach attracts hyper-rationalist types who aren't willing to say anything other than "Your thinking patterns are wrong, you need to fix them." No serious discussion of trauma, identity issues, or relationships. Pure gaslighting. Recently, I finally realized that what I needed was some serious introspection and an empathetic therapist who would help me work through it. For all the bluster about psychoanalysis being quackery, I'm not sure you can disagree with its basic premise that maladaptive personality traits are likely to come from the social context you spent most of your first ~18 years in.