Psychotherapy and psychological treatment are typically private processes, bound by the unique relationship between client and therapist, and by strict rules of confidentiality. But there’s a growing realisation in therapy circles that the community may have a critical role to play in making people better. In particular, psychology is being implicated as promoting our increasingly individualistic society. Let’s take Facebook or Twitter as examples of this culture. Under the auspices of social networking, aren’t we all simply becoming more self-focused, more narcissistic, more driven to establish ourselves as mini-celebrities? These theorists suggest that therapy can sometimes do the same, especially when the aim is to focus exclusively on intra-psychic processes (inside us) at the expense of interpersonal (between people) or community-based initiatives.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 09:13:03 +0000
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