I have been buggin' everyone on TIPS about social therapy. I am not a clinician but have found myself intrigued with fact that social therapy has apparently adopted a political agenda and some claim that it is a leftist cult. I was always under the impression that psychologists were neutral. Please read the description of social psychology below and comment if you would about politics interweaving with therapy. mike
"The therapist, again, functions in the therapeutic interaction as a revolutionary leader, leading by forming a revolutionary relationship of sisterhood or brotherhood with the worker patient and together becoming a proletarian authority, which overthrows the bourgeois authority or proletarian ego...Working to help the struggling slave go through the insurrectional act of overthrow of the proletarian ego and [then] helping the worker during the long period of withering away of the proletarian ego." -- Fred Newman, "Power and Authority --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
