The Human Elements of Psychotherapy Joyce Butler Topics include the physician-patient relationship

Topics include the physician-patient relationship

the authors cast a critical eye on the reality of commonly used scientific and pseudoscientific practices in social work today

Van den Brink's approach offers a refreshingly new and dynamic way forward in contrast to the 'rationalist' methodologies of much of mainstream consultancy and personal development

and examining such issues as the proper role of methodology

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The Human Elements of Psychotherapy Joyce Butler Topics include the physician-patient relationshipThe dominant paradigm in psychotherapy is the medical model, which views therapy as a clinical treatment rather than a healing interpersonal connection. Words like patient, diagnosis, symptoms, treatment, and modalities reflect this medically oriented view of therapy. In this book, David Elkins cogently argues that while the medical model remains widely accepted, science shows it to be inappropriate. A wealth of evidence suggests that healing occurs