Bad businesses, on the other hand, spare no effort to discredit psychological counselors and constantly strengthen the public's misunderstanding and prejudice against psychological counseling.
"Break up and get back together, divorce and remarry, and teach by hand. It only takes a few thousand dollars, and the emotional recovery master can help you solve all your emotional problems."
An emotional recovery agency made the above advertisement. The savage growth of "emotional recovery masters" is rapidly filling people's demand for this industry.
But is this emotional recovery service really useful?
Emotional victims of signing up for payment
Did you really pay the IQ tax?
From the bottom of the emotional counseling scam, an official WeChat account clearly priced the emotional recovery service on WeChat. According to the account profile, a one-on-one emotional service platform has been created.
Professional emotional tutors help you repair your feelings and love, get out of lovelorn, marriage repair, mistress's persuasion, divorce pursuit, lover's infidelity and divorce crisis.
The other party said that it is recommended that professional emotional tutors conduct one-on-one communication. The tutors will comprehensively analyze and evaluate the problems between the two people, and give users directional suggestions on how to solve this series of problems and improve emotional concentration. Most of the experts are "psychological counselors".
The package price is 600 yuan, lasting for one hour. The emotional counselor said:
"Our tutor's recovery success rate is 95.97%. As long as you listen to the guidance of the tutor and listen to the opinions of the tutor, there is basically no problem. "
After the induction of a set of words of emotional counselors in the early stage, many counselors think that spending 600 yuan can save feelings.
However, this is not the case. The service charge in 600 yuan is only one hour. Once the user pays this fee, he falls into the routine of "emotional master". If the problem can't be solved in the future, it will be convenient to introduce higher-priced packages to users.
Induce users to pay high fees, and refuse to refund if the service is invalid. From the first free consultation to the first low-cost charge and then to the second three high-cost charges, we use the urgent psychological expectations of the parties to save their feelings and make users pay through constant induction. The actual effect can often be imagined.
Searching for emotional recovery on the black cat complaint platform shows that there are more than 500 complaint cases, and the basic feedback from users is that the effect is not good, the service is cheated, and the refund is refused.
In addition to providing emotional recovery services, the above platforms also sell a large number of emotional courses, such as:
Tips for communication between men and women: 27 strategies to make men want to hear what you say, and don't let anxiety drag you down. 13 classroom learning to deal with negative emotions in life, from "seduce" to bait, from ambiguity to result-9 rules for making love and marriage smooth. The prices of the above courses range from 39 yuan to 69 yuan. In addition, the introduction of many course supporting lecturers shows that they are national first-class marriage counselors.
But in fact, as early as 20 16, the State Council issued the "Decision on Cancelling a Batch of Professional Qualification Licenses and Identification Matters" to cancel the marriage and family counselors.
Recently, the Shanghai police cracked a new type of "emotional recovery" fraud case. Criminal gangs pretend to be psychological counselors under the banner of professional emotional counseling institutions, and use words to trick people with emotional setbacks into buying so-called "emotional recovery services", thus defrauding victims of a lot of money.
Up to now, the Shanghai police have arrested 69 suspects and initially verified more than 500 cases involving more than 7 million yuan.
Niu Niu (pseudonym) reported to the Jinshan Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau that she was defrauded by an emotional consulting agency called "Shihua Education Consulting" for more than 34,000 yuan in order to save her feelings with her girlfriend.
Niu Niu said that in July 2020, there was a problem with his girlfriend. In order to save this relationship, Niu Niu searched online for emotional recovery skills. Soon, he was attracted by the slogan "One-on-one personal tailor, 100% love to save" and added the agency's WeChat for consultation.
After learning the basic situation of Niu Niu in detail, the other party promised to arrange an exclusive "emotional expert" to communicate and persuade her ex-girlfriend to help Niu Niu repair her feelings, as long as he provided her personal information.
Niu Niu immediately paid a consulting fee of 3,280 yuan and signed an electronic contract with the other party. The agency then arranged "emotional experts" to provide emotional counseling for Niu Niu, and said that she had contacted her ex-girlfriend.
Subsequently, the agency's "experts" asked Niu Niu to transfer more than 30,000 yuan on the grounds that "the ex-girlfriend has a new boyfriend and needs further work guidance" and "the ex-girlfriend has been shaken and needs to contact the current boyfriend to end the relationship".
It was not until April of 20021year that Niu Niu got back together with her ex-girlfriend. In the absence of a clear answer from the contact intermediary, Niu Niu realized that she was cheated and called the police.
The police investigated the mobile phones used by fraud gangs and found that the "psychological counselor" who contacted Niu Niu did not obtain the relevant national qualifications, and the agency never got in touch with Niu Niu's ex-girlfriend. Niu Niu's ex-girlfriend got married during the period of emotional recovery.
What we can see is that the so-called emotional experts now only use the urgency of consumers to save their feelings and achieve the purpose of cheating money.
The news made the psychological counselors who really studied and practiced psychological counseling cry:
This disturbing industry chaos has finally been managed!
The cost of formal psychological counseling is mostly between 300 and 2000. What's your problem, giving money to these liars who claim to be omnipotent?
The reason why swindlers use the name of "psychological counselor" is nothing more than using the public's little knowledge of the psychological counseling industry, deliberately distorting and exaggerating propaganda, and turning psychology into "mind reading" and "subconscious manipulation". Propaganda and operation means are fierce as tigers.
I want my sister to help you get your sister, I want to seduce you to Han, I want to save my old love, give you a second chance, and I want you to be invincible. People's hearts seem to be in my hands, and there is no witchcraft in the world. Who but a liar can make such a guarantee?
However, there are always people who want to believe that there is such an omnipotent person in the world who can help them solve their problems and save themselves from the quagmire.
It is hard to imagine what kind of predicament the parties will face if they encounter fraud in the case of emotional crisis.
In the era of western psychological internet, more and more people are eager to seek solutions to psychological problems on the internet, and some even hope to achieve a win-win effect. This makes us feel sad that we spare no effort in the knowledge of popular science psychology.
I hope everyone can eliminate the misunderstanding of the psychological counseling industry and really use psychology to understand and help themselves.