Soul Searching : Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility
Soul Searching : Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility
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Author(s): Doherty, William J.
ISBN No.: 9780465020683
Pages: 224
Year: 199504
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 30.36
Status: Out Of Print

Trained to strive for neutrality and to focus strictly on the clients needs, most therapists generally consider moral issues such as fairness, truthfulness, and obligation beyond their domain. Now, an award-winning psychologist and family therapist criticizes psychotherapys overemphasis on individual self-interest and calls for a sense of moral responsibility in therapy. Paul, a divorced father, wants to back out of his child care arrangement and spend less time with his children. Nathan has been lying to his wife about a serious medical condition. Marsha, recently separated from her husband, cannot resist telling her children negative things about their father. What is the role of therapy in these situations? Trained to strive for neutrality and to focus strictly on the clients needs, most therapists generally consider moral issues such as fairness, truthfulness, and obligation beyond their domain. Now, an award-winning psychologist and family therapist criticizes psychotherapys overemphasis on individual self-interest and calls for a sense of moral responsibility in therapy.


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