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===== 1. Category Error + Developmental Rigidity =====

Many people default to literalism, assuming that if it says “therapy,” it must mean clinical psychotherapy — legally defined, regulated, performed by humans, etc.

But this is a category mistake born of early-stage thinking (see the Critical Thinking Development Stage Theory):
* They cannot tolerate semantic ambiguity, and
* default to binary reasoning: “It’s either therapy or it’s not, and if it’s not, people are being misled.”

This is often an ego-preserving shortcut, not malice.