Soul Searching: Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility - Hardcover

Doherty, W. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465020682 ISBN 13: 9780465020683

Publisher: Basic Books, 1995

Synopsis

Trained to strive for neutrality and to focus strictly on the clients needs, most therapists generally consider moral issues such as fairness, truthfulness, and obligation beyond their domain. Now, an award-winning psychologist and family therapist criticizes psychotherapys overemphasis on individual self-interest and calls for a sense of moral responsibility in therapy. Paul, a divorced father, wants to back out of his child care arrangement and spend less time with his children. Nathan has been lying to his wife about a serious medical condition. Marsha, recently separated from her husband, cannot resist telling her children negative things about their father. What is the role of therapy in these situations? Trained to strive for neutrality and to focus strictly on the clients needs, most therapists generally consider moral issues such as fairness, truthfulness, and obligation beyond their domain. Now, an award-winning psychologist and family therapist criticizes psychotherapys overemphasis on individual self-interest and calls for a sense of moral responsibility in therapy.

About this title

About the Author

William J. Doherty, Ph.D., is professor of Family Social Science, and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota.

Edition details

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465020682
• ISBN 13: 9780465020683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224