Well, this reply of yours, Robert, certainly has the potential to open some "can o'worms", in lots of different areas. Just to invite some more objective consideration of Peer Support, I'd encourage people to do a search for evaluations of such services -- IF you can find any let me know. IPS is not the only model of peer support though it's the most referred to. The days of "we like it so therefore it has to be good", apart from any other "data" would have / should have, I would have hoped, ended 40 years ago. Instead, I encourage people to read, and heed, the recommendations of Lloyd-Evans http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/14/39/abstract
Locally, in New Zealand, if you can get the Kites Reports, which attempted to review the "success" of local peer support organizations, you'll see how such organisations often fail to have any evaluation measures capable of responding to calls for greater accountability. The local local Dunedin Otago MH peer support service forestalls having to hear any criticism by labelling its form the "Complaint and Feedback Memorandum" -- New Zealanders don't like to complain so ...
Yes, poor old Bessel, really does cop a hiding, as do most people who choose to stand out from the crowd, perhaps because he's made some bold comments about taboo subjects. Reading Martin Dorahy's review of the history of trauma and abuse in Lanius' book shows how clearly various forces have suppressed coverage of such issues over years past. Still, as someone who has suffered Complex Trauma, and saw his brother go through the whole "Developmental Trauma Disorder" I must say no one else has ever, in my opinion, written so compassionately and empathetically of developmental trauma issues.