The Myth of Psychotherapy

Thomas S. Szasz, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 28, Number 4

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1974.28.4.517

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Abstract

Psychotherapeutic interventions are metaphorical treatments that stand in the same sort of relation to medical treatments as criticizing and editing television programs stand to repairing television receivers. Simply put, psychotherapy is conversation, and conversation is not treatment. All forms of psychotherapy rest on and constitute the practice of some sort of ethic, usually of a secular sort.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 28 • Number 4 • 1974, pp. 485–640

Pages: 517 - 526

PubMed: 4429160

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Published in print: 1974, pp. 485–640

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Thomas S. Szasz, M.D.^†

Syracuse, N.Y.

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Invited Opening Address, Ninth International Congress of Psychotherapy, Oslo, Norway, June 25–30, 1973.

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Professor of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, N.Y. 13210.

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