Politics and Therapy: Mapping Areas for Consideration - Pete Sanders

Whenever the issues of politics and therapy come up, they bring with them a myriad of possibilities, from the debates concerning regulation and professionalization through to the advantages of including a psychotherapeutic perspective in all government committees. Yet these possibilities are rarely considered, discussed or elaborated in public amongst person-centred practitioners. This short chapter is an attempt to map out the possible intersections between politics and therapy to help locate debates and issues in the readers’ wider experiences in the field of therapy and the helping professions. Although this book specifically addresses the intersections between the person-centred approach and politics,this chapter concerns itself with a slightly different set of intersections, namely between therapy in general and politics.

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Extract from 

Politicizing The Person-Centred Approach: An Agenda For Social Change edited by Gillian Proctor, Pete Sanders, Mick Cooper and Beryl Malcolm (2006)

ISBN 9781898059721