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Psychotherapy in historical perspective
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Hist Human Sci
2017[Apr]; 30
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): 3-16
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This article will briefly explore some of the ways in which the past has been
used as a means to talk about psychotherapy as a practice and as a profession,
its impact on individuals and society, and the ethical debates at stake. It will
show how, despite the multiple and competing claims about psychotherapy's history
and its meanings, historians themselves have, to a large degree, not attended to
the intellectual and cultural development of many therapeutic approaches. This
absence has the potential consequence of implying that therapies have emerged as
value-free techniques, outside of a social, economic and political context. The
relative neglect of psychotherapy, by contrast with the attention historians have
paid to other professions, particularly psychiatry, has also underplayed its
societal impact. This article will foreground some of the instances where
psychotherapy has become an object of emerging historical interest, including the
new research that forms the substance of this special issue of History of the
Human Sciences.
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