Kemtrup
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Philosophy and Psychotherapy.
Thread on the confusingly many diff kinds of therapy and what we should do about it: The public must be very confused about what they will experience when they see a psychotherapist. They hear many acronyms and names: EMDR, ACT, AEDP, EFT, DBT, CBT, Rogerian, etc. It takes...
Justin, stop demeaning people with mental illness. Psychiatry isn’t about taking power away—it’s about refusing to leave people to suffer in silence. You wouldn’t tell someone with a shattered leg to “walk it off,” so why treat trauma or psychosis like a mindset problem? Telling…
Psychiatry survives only by endlessly repeating its core mantra: “You have no power to heal yourself. You cannot change your thoughts and feelings. You need our interventions and drugs.” It’s the exact same mechanism by which NGOs keep developing countries in dire poverty.
I’d go further. A psychiatrist needn’t practice psychotherapy regularly throughout their career. But someone who doesn’t deeply understand therapy, hasn’t really practiced it, isn’t really a psychiatrist at all, in the best sense of that term.
“To be a therapist is to be the doctor to a patient’s narrative.” Read why reclaiming psychotherapy is reclaiming the soul of psychiatry. Link below
Most recent achievements in philosophy of psychiatry can be characterized by a somehow unitary approach, in which the domain in question is conceived of as if it was somehow conceptually (and ontologically) homogeneous... 👇👇👇
"We must ... understand how to best conceptualize psychotherapy as a practice that encompasses fact and value, art and science, the individual and the social context, and that somewhat ineffable quality that has been called practical wisdom"