Psychotherapy in its beginnings was to be done by a therapist who was also in her/his own therapy as a protection or screen against unhealed healers. Over the years, and especially after addiction was classified a "disease" by the same people slated to make money from this classification, therapists could instead go to a school, take classes, get degrees, and become instant "healers".The therapy was let go as not needed.

The classification of addiction as a disease meant that large amounts of insurance money could now flow to the mental health/addiction fields. The most common therapy method used was also the cheapest to provide--talk therapy. Humans generally love talking about themselves and addicts especially liked talking ad infinum about how misunderstood they were by most everyone who had ever known them.

The only emotion that helps the addict to get well is the ability to see how the addict hurt others. This is called remorse. Of course, being an addict, this first stage will be a small melodrama. Wallowing in self-pity, feeling sorry for oneself is not remorse. Remorse is the determination of changing one's life to improve the quality of living for the addict and for those who love the addict.

The managed health field took control of the sessions that they would fund as no one had determined a beginning and an end of treatment. Hence the 28-day to 31-day treatment were instituted not because it works but because that is all the insurance would pay. By some miracle, recovery happens according to the mental health/addiction fields when the insurance money runs out. If you can't pay out-of-pocket, then you are "cured".