nice white analysts   What's the "white" got to do with in that context? (After all the "emotionally shutdown etc" person is goig to be white themselves most of the time.)

I quite agree though, there's clearly some very lazy thinking in this whole field, and that makes it easier for cynics to reject the whole idea of trying to find ways of salvaging people. There have been projects which have seemed to work, but typically they get ignored and closed down. They don't fit in with the prejudices of the throw-away-the-key merchants, or of the psychobabblers.