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James Bugental on the unique, changing nature of therapeutic relationship

‘The ideal therapeutic relationship is continually evolving and changing. It is not a way of being together, which is established early in the participants’ relation and remains unchanged; instead it is constantly changing as the work progresses and as the … Continue reading

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Thomas Szasz on ‘Freedom and Psychotherapy’ in conversation with Randall C. Wyatt

http://www.psychotherapy.net/interview/thomas-szasz Click on the link for this fascinating interview with Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry emeritus at SUNY Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York, where he has taught since 1956. Randall describes him as ‘the foremost psychiatric critic of … Continue reading

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