Psychotherapy is political or it is not psychotherapy: The person-centered approach as an essentially political venture

Schmid, Peter F.

doi:10.1080/14779757.2012.682441

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“…I wholeheartedly agree with Schmid's (2012/) thesis that psychotherapy is political. Departing from the original understanding of politics as the consequence of an image of the human being, Schmid argues that everyone is ultimately a politician.…”

Section: Policy: Psychotherapy Is Political or It Is Not Psychotherapysupporting

confidence: 77%

“…This point is related to what Schmid views as “policy: the normative dimension”. As he points out: “in reality psychotherapy politics is … not much about policy” (Schmid, 2012/, p.9) There are many writings on psychotherapy, its techniques and their acquisition, but it is not so easy to find explicit formulations of its ultimate – or political – goal, and I appreciate Schmid's attempt to offer such a formulation.…”

Section: Policy: Psychotherapy Is Political or It Is Not Psychotherapymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Schmid (2012/) argues that, if the word of psychotherapy is connected with personality development in a liberating meaning, then it “must not only be aware of its political implications : understanding, investigating, formulating, developing them … it must also be actively political” (p. 6) – but how should psychotherapy be actively political or how should psychotherapists act politically?…”

Section: Politics: How Should Psychotherapists Act Politically?mentioning

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Notes on Schmid's “Psychotherapy is Political or it is not Psychotherapy: The Person-Centred Approach as an Essentially Political Venture”

Muramoto

2014

Psychotherapy and Politics International

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This article makes – and strikes – four notes in response to Schmid's (2012/2014) paper. Taking Schmid's definition of politics as encompassing policy, politics, and polity, and adding a fourth element, that of the personal, the author discusses: (1) policy – by addressing Schmid's central question “Psychotherapy is political or it is not psychotherapy”; (2) politics – by asking “How should psychotherapists act politically?” (3) polity – in which the author discusses the estimation of the World Association of Person‐Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies and Counseling and its journal, Person‐Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies; and (4) (the) personal – in which the author reflects personally on the concept that “The most personal is the most political”. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Policy: Psychotherapy Is Political or It Is Not Psychotherapysupporting

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Notes on Schmid's “Psychotherapy is Political or it is not Psychotherapy: The Person-Centred Approach as an Essentially Political Venture”

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“…Em nossa perspectiva, se Schmid (1998b) vai a Buber e Lévinas (1961/2008) em busca de uma saí-da do ego e de um novo modo de lidar com a alteridade, ao propor outra forma de conceber a pessoa, ele também centraliza toda a sua teorização neste conceito. O engodo deste artifício pode ser contemplado até mesmo nos escritos de Schmid (2012), quando, ao discutir política, concebe as relações sociais apenas como relações pessoais (face a face).…”

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Peter Schmid e a alteridade radical: retomando o diálogo entre rogers e lévinas

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2017

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“…In so doing, culturally minded psychotherapy, and in particular attachment‐based and body‐centred psychotherapy, is a countercultural and anti‐consumerist movement, which threatens the pillars of political finance and the contemporary regressive and abusive marketing and political trends. Peter Schmid (, p. 106) went even further, claiming that

A psychotherapist or counselor who does not care about politics in fact does harm to their clients. To be apolitical means to stabilize, to fortify the status quo.…”

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Forever Young: Consumerism and the Body of Politics from a Body Psychotherapy Perspective

Ben-Shahar¹

2015

Psychotherapy and Politics International

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This paper examines the relationship between inherent oral traits (neoteny), cultural bias towards orality and consumerist culture. Through exploring the evolution of Mickey Mouse and looking at the consensual ideal body, I shall offer that consumerism and politics are shaping our body to remain needy, unsatisfied and pathologically oral. The paper suggests that psychotherapy, inasmuch as it challenges such pathological positions, is political and counter-cultural. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Key words: consumerism; politics; orality; neoteny; gender The world of human behaviour is too complex and multifarious to be unlocked by any simple key. I say this to maintain that this richness -if anything -is both our hope and our essence. (Stephen Jay Gould, 1978, p. 533) Psychoanalyst and body psychotherapist John Conger (1994, 2005) claimed that Western civilisation turned the body into the shadow: the part of us that held whichever sides we did not find worthy of owning up to. The body held a paradox: on the one hand, it was covered and layered, painted and camouflaged; on the other, it was our body that was first seen. We modestly (or shamefully) concealed it, yet it was visible to all, publicly expressing our personal (and possibly our social) unconscious processes.Whatever fears, cultural and social attitudes, aspirations, and values and beliefs we hold, these all find their expression in the body. Culture creates the body and, in return, the body conceptualises the culture and embodies it (Appel-Opper, 2010). Thus the body has its own politics and, faced with the speeches of our persona, the body tells the stories of our unspeakable shadow: our pains, our unrealised wishes, our jealousy, passion, and neediness which sometimes are too painful even to be spoken of.It is no surprise that from the dawn of history many attempts were made to silence the body, and since men were in power for the majority of time, the woman's body was silenced even more extensively than man's (Butler, 1988;Cixous & Clement, 1986;Irigaray, 1993 tried to narrow down the body's dialogue, to hide its inconvenient transparency, its visible passion and fear, hate, and desire for connection which are easily seen by those willing to look. Such political attempts at silencing were expressed in gendered power struggles (chauvinism throughout the years), by religious institutions and by other societal and familial organisations. This paper is dedicated to the exploration and demonstration of the dialectical relationship between body and politics, through body-reading of cultural icons, some clinical vignettes and cultural examples. I would claim that the politics of the body has been at the centre of the psychotherapeutic practice since the very early days of psychoanalysis and that psychotherapeutic acts represent political choices, which are publicly announced by the bodies that we are. BARBIE COMES TO THERAPYMiri sought psychotherapy following some anxiety attacks and unexplained chest pain. She was 25, beautiful and hi...

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Psychotherapy is political or it is not psychotherapy: The person-centered approach as an essentially political venture

Cited by 25 publications

References 5 publications

Notes on Schmid's “Psychotherapy is Political or it is not Psychotherapy: The Person-Centred Approach as an Essentially Political Venture”

Notes on Schmid's “Psychotherapy is Political or it is not Psychotherapy: The Person-Centred Approach as an Essentially Political Venture”

Peter Schmid e a alteridade radical: retomando o diálogo entre rogers e lévinas

Forever Young: Consumerism and the Body of Politics from a Body Psychotherapy Perspective

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