PSYCHOTHERAPY IS POLITICAL OR IT IS NOT PSYCHOTHERAPY

THE PERSON-CENTERED APPROACH AS AN ESSENTIALLY POLITICAL ADVENTURE

Authors

  • Peter Schmid Sigmund Freud University (SFU) Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14940321

Keywords:

politics, democracy, actualizing tendency, personalization, dialogue

Abstract

Reflecting on the state of the art of person-centered therapy (PCT), and drawing upon the original understanding of politics as the consequence of an image of the human being, this paper argues that a political understanding (as politics, policy, and polity) is essentially inherent in the person-centered approach. It discusses the policies of psychotherapeutic orientations and enphasize the democratic and emancipatory point of view of PCT. It concludes that we need to open a debate among the different approaches of the person they are giving to society and sketches a political way of being for therapists.

Author Biography

  • Peter Schmid, Sigmund Freud University (SFU)

    Sigmund Freud University (SFU), Vienna, Austria

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Published

2020-03-15

How to Cite

PSYCHOTHERAPY IS POLITICAL OR IT IS NOT PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE PERSON-CENTERED APPROACH AS AN ESSENTIALLY POLITICAL ADVENTURE. (2020). Revista Espacio ECP, 1(1), 35-48. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14940321