Anxiety Engagement Justice and Corrections Psychotherapy 
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.
Clinical Philosophy
JANUARY 31, 2021
Sometimes they talk about, say, anxiety or depression or hypomania, sometimes about relationship and work difficulties. 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’).
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