Between paternalism and neo-liberal regulation: Producing motivated clients of psychotherapy.

From: Critical Psychology | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Malson, Helen; Schmidt, Ulrike; Humfress, Harriet | Copyright information

The field of psychotherapy has been subject to numerous and varied critiques and analyses of the regulatory politics entailed in its practices and of the power-relations that pertain between therapist and client. Whilst the 'curative' and/or 'emancipatory' effects of psychotherapy have been much celebrated within Western cultures, many critiques, developed primarily by feminist and anti-psychiatry scholars, have elucidated the paternalistic nature of client-therapist relations and ...

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