A consideration of psychotherapy as an ethical discipline and how this impacts the issue of professional regulation.
On “Classical Analysis”
The classical analysts got one thing right: you cannot “cure” people by merely sympathising with them on their misfortune. Beware pity & Mitleid. But they got one thing wrong: you cannot “cure” people if you withdraw from them emotionally. The therapist has to be an incitement to them to achieve a higher state of harmony…
Goethe and Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis as an intellectual discipline is unthinkable without the innovative precedents set by the great German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832). Freud quotes Goethe throughout his writing probably more than he does any other predecessor. Freud tells us in his Autobiography (1925) that it was the inspiration of listening to a reading of…
Marcus Bowman PhD 