The Values of Psychotherapy

319 Pages·2004·12.485 MB·English

by  Jeremy Holmes, Richard Lindley

THE VALUES
OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

THE VALUES
OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
Jeremy Holmes Richard Lindley
Revised Edition
Foreword by
R. D. Hinshelwood
London
K A R N A C B O O K S
Originally published in 1989 by Oxford University Press.
This revised edition first published in 1998 by
H. Kamac (Books) Ltd.
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London SW7 4QY
Copyright O 1989,1998 Jeremy Holmes and Richard Lindley
Foreword copyright O 1998 R. D. Hinshelwood
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD by R. D. Hinshelwood ix
INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED EDITION xiii
PREFACE xvii
1 Taking psychotherapy seriously
2 The case against psychotherapy
3 Is psychotherapy a luxury?
4 The unjust distribution of psychotherapy
5 The social role of psychotherapy
6 The therapeutic relationship:
ethical implications of transference
7 Moral dilemmas within psychotherapy
viii CONTENTS
8 Psychotherapists: servants of two masters? 192
9 Ethical codes and codes of practice in psychotherapy 214
10 Psychotherapy: the makings of a profession 23 1
11 Epilogue: the future of psychotherapy 257
GLOSSARY
REFERENCES
INDEX
FOREWORD
R. D. Hinshelwood
T
here is no objectivity in the human sciences. Psychotherapy
is one research field that has really addressed that fact. It is
accepted that the psychotherapist profoundly affects the
field of study whilst in the process of studying it-and the researcher
goes on creating an unfolding effect as long as it lasts. The therapeutic
effect is, of course, founded on just the same view too: the field of
study (the patient or client) is deeply affected by the researcher in a
persistent, on-going manner.
But, more than this, there is another and comparable mutual
influence: psychotherapy and society also influence each other in a
two-way fashion. The Western world has not been left untouched by
the coming of Freud (and, to a lesser extent, Janet and nineteenth-
century hypnotherapies). Psychotherapy has led to a widely accepted
change in our understanding of what a person is. Our sense of our-
selves and of how we relate to each other is, in part, a product of
the century of psychotherapy, just as psychotherapy is, in part, the
creation of the historical development of our society. The values of
psychotherapy are, in a deep sense, the values of society in general.
I was very grateful during my own researches when the first
edition of this book appeared in 1989. Though my own ideas eventu-
ally developed in a somewhat divergent way, it was in no small