Clinic Justice and Corrections Psychiatric Psychotherapy 
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.
Clinical Philosophy
JANUARY 16, 2021
My application isn’t of psychoanalytic ideas to matters outside the clinic, but rather of some philosophical thought from outside the clinic to what we find within. 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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