what's love got to do with it?
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? Gaita is a 17 year old ward assistant in a psychiatric hospital.
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