3 responses to “Paul Moloney and Justin Podur talk ‘The Therapy Industry: The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure and Why it Doesn’t Work’ | The Ossington Circle, episode 4”

1. in-person to person therapy can sometimes help individuals to have a different relationship to, orientation towards, the choices/conditions they face but it doesn’t (re)create the broader environs in which they dwell, that said is “talk” therapy really on the rise in any significant way these days?
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27ve_Had_a_Hundred_Years_of_Psychotherapy_%E2%80%93_And_the_World%27s_Getting_Worse

   • I don’t think it is…not significantly. What has happened though is a conversion of forms as psychoanalysis gave way to CBT, and CBT has effectively colonised every part of the lifeworld. Informal CBT is everywhere.

     • yes thanks I see what yer after:
       http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/06/peter-miller-the-calculating-self/