[Audio] EP95 Invited Address 02b – The Healing Word: Its Past, Present and Future – Thomas Szasz, MD

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• [Instant Download] – Immediately deliver the download link after receiving the payment Purchase [Audio] EP95 Invited Address 02b - The Healing Word: Its Past, Present and Future - Thomas Szasz, MD courses at here with PRICE $15 $5 Topic Areas:Invited AddressCategory:Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1995Faculty:Thomas Szasz, MD | Paul Watzlawick, PhDDuration:1:24:29Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :Dec 13, 1995 Description Description: Invited Address Session 2 Part 2 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1995 - The Healing Word: Its Past, Present and Future Featuring Thomas Szasz, MD, with discussant Paul Watzlawick, PhD. Moderated by Michael Munion, MA. In the ancient world, the philosopher was a physician of the soul who, employing the healing word (iatroi /ogoi), offered counsel to persons perplexed by problems in living.

• After the triumph of Christianity, the priest as confessor-counselor replaced the philosopher as rhetorician of consolation.

• With the birth of psychiatry, and especially since the Freudian revolution, we call helping persons with words "psychotherapy." I shall try to show that without a decisive separation of rhetorical healing from medical healing, psychotherapy as the secular cure of souls is doomed to extinction.

• Educational Objectives: To demonstrate that psychotherapy ought to be viewed as a moral-religious, rather than as a medical-therapeutic, enterprise.

• To demonstrate that the thesis that psychotherapy is inherently ineffective, as often advanced by critics, is logically incoherent.