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psychotherapeutic culture

January 4th, 2012

Last July I Blogged about the distinction between coaching and psychotherapy.

http://tomkrapu.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/pt-1-distinguishing-between-coaching-and-psychotherapy/

Part of my work in the area of the distinction between coaching and psychotherapy relates to what I call “the psychotherapeutic culture”. This relates to the historical tendency for the psychoanalytic movement and later the psychotherapy profession to define the terms of “mental health”. One of my central points is that the bar has been consistently lowered for having a mental health diagnosis.

January 2017: This Blog entry is being updated now that I have published an article in the Philosophy of Coaching journal in October, 2016:

Coaching from a Philosophy of Science Perspective:

http://philosophyofcoaching.org/v1i1/02.pdf

 

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