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

And psychotherapy, amongst other health-giving relationships, involves the remobilisation and diversification of these structures through a disidentificatory process of symbolising them. So thought-stopping was this furious response that the complainant did not think of the correct answer: ‘I’m a member of the general public’.)

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Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 31, 2021

In a paper on whether psychotherapy is a form of prostitution, philosopher Rupert Read suggests that therapy is to genuine loving friendship (‘agape’) as prostitution is to erotic love (‘eros’). Is psychotherapy, too, not a more subtle selling of such a fantasy? Now therapy is, directly or otherwise, paid for.

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