Clinical Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

(notes for a talk at Confer, 21st Sep 2019 ) Abstract Describing psychotherapy as a method of treatment is expedient in healthcare settings, but it would take a tin ear to not baulk at it as a characterisation of the therapeutic experience. Then again, psychotherapy is also in the business of helping patients separate out from others.

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Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2021

Introduction Let me begin by saying something about the kind of ‘application’ that I’m engaged in, in this ‘Applied’ rather than ‘Scientific’ meeting. Kris777’s mother engages here in an act of omission which, precisely because it isn’t so readily ostensible, can - if called out - be more readily defended. (In

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Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 31, 2021

But all going well, I suggest, what they’ll be met with in therapy is the opportunity to engage in a form of interaction which leaves them with a greater trust in their lovability, a greater clarity regarding what it is to love and be loved, and a greater capacity for loving. Is psychotherapy, too, not a more subtle selling of such a fantasy?

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