Psychotherapy Schizophrenia Therapist 
Beautiful Voyager
JANUARY 28, 2024
My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression. Like Thompson, they filled the day with activities that provided structure and predictability, the two things I needed as much as medication and psychotherapy. Schizophrenia? Apparently, the staff—or her therapist—had given her a job to do.
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’). The therapist is selling herself, or some simulacrum of herself; the client is being cheated if this fact is played down or veiled.
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