{"title":"Psychotherapy as civics: the patient therapist as citizens.","authors":"Laurence Simon","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The field of psychotherapy has failed to live up to its promise to be a force in the continued development of democracy by aligning itself with medicine and psychiatry. Psychotherapists must recognize that those with whom they work and disseminate information to are inevitably citizens and that they are redefining citizens as mental patients. By utilizing psychiatric diagnoses, which are in effect, moral labels, psychotherapy unwittingly helps create authoritarian political structures by convincing their patients and the public that they are essentially inferior and can do nothing to change that condition. A series of recommendations are made that suggest ways for psychotherapy to free itself from institutional psychiatry and medicine and build its own \"house.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":39734,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Psychology","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The field of psychotherapy has failed to live up to its promise to be a force in the continued development of democracy by aligning itself with medicine and psychiatry. Psychotherapists must recognize that those with whom they work and disseminate information to are inevitably citizens and that they are redefining citizens as mental patients. By utilizing psychiatric diagnoses, which are in effect, moral labels, psychotherapy unwittingly helps create authoritarian political structures by convincing their patients and the public that they are essentially inferior and can do nothing to change that condition. A series of recommendations are made that suggest ways for psychotherapy to free itself from institutional psychiatry and medicine and build its own "house."
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Visit Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry Online on IngentaConnect to view tables of contents or to subscribe. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry (EHPP) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research reports, reviews, essays, book reviews, commentaries, and case reports examining all the ramifications of the idea that emotional distress is due to an underlying organic disease that is best treated with pharmacological therapy. This oversimplified view of human nature permeates virtually every area of our society including medicine, business, law, education, politics, and the media. Thus, we welcome submissions from a broad range of specialties. EHPP is the official publication of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP).
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