Hmm. Maybe I was born unusually introspective, because my therapists never deepened my analysis or called me on bullshit. My experience may be more atypical than I thought.

In my experience (and as I understand it, in studies) intelligent people are especially good at rationalizing away behavior and channeling emotional reactions in weird, unhelpful directions.

I haven't heard of those studies. I'd be interested in any references you have. I'm familiar with the correlation between intelligence and kookiness, but this sounds a bit different, though probably related.

your problem with therapists is that they're not enough like your average less wrong poster.

Heh. Well, sort of. That and, maybe, that I'm just not cut out for therapy.