Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 22, 2020

Raimond Gaita's famous example of the nun in the psychiatric hospital provided the example here.) Another concerned the work one needs to do on oneself as a therapist to tolerate the patient's tragic loneliness rather than deflect from it and flee into understanding or action.

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Psychotherapy Therapist Psychiatric Hospitals 40

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Buss, BS; Robinson De Jesús-Romero, BA, MsC; Allison Peipert, BS; Isabella Starvaggi, BS Psychotherapy research in the 21st century Mental disorders account for a substantial proportion of the disability attributable to health conditions (Whiteford et al., 2014), positive psychotherapy (Lopez-Gomez et al., 76, Issue 1.

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Psychotherapy CBT Psychiatry Depression 45

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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Psychotherapy Therapist Justice and Corrections Interviewing 52