Psychiatry and Psychotherapy as Political Processes

Peter R. Breggin, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 29, Number 3

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.3.369

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Therapy is applied politics. From hospitalizing a patient to offering psychoanalytic insight, a therapist’s every action reflects his own attitudes toward political issues, including individual freedom vs. state control, or capitalism versus socialism. Ultimately every therapy implements some Utopian political vision against which the client will measure his own success and failure in the therapy.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 29 • Number 3 • 1975, pp. 303–462

Pages: 369 - 382

PubMed: 1163692

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Published in print: 1975, pp. 303–462

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Peter R. Breggin, M.D.^*

Washington, D.C.

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Executive Director, Center for the Study of Psychiatry, 4628 Chestnut St., Washington, D.C. 20014.

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