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Ambivalent about therapy

Posted by Abram Sterne on Tuesday, March 10, 2009, In : Therapy 

I am ambivalent about the word “therapy”.

For me, it connotes the idea of something to be fixed and to be made better because there is something wrong, bad and diseased. That makes sense when talking about chemotherapy, or drug therapy, or physiotherapy.

Obviously, there many individuals who have experienced or currently has a mental health illness in which the appropriate word could be therapy, which denotes the act of medically caring for someone who is unwell. In this case, the word ...


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Showing Tag: "opinion" (Show all posts)

Ambivalent about therapy

Posted by Abram Sterne on Tuesday, March 10, 2009, In : Therapy 

I am ambivalent about the word “therapy”.

For me, it connotes the idea of something to be fixed and to be made better because there is something wrong, bad and diseased. That makes sense when talking about chemotherapy, or drug therapy, or physiotherapy.

Obviously, there many individuals who have experienced or currently has a mental health illness in which the appropriate word could be therapy, which denotes the act of medically caring for someone who is unwell. In this case, the word ...


Continue reading ...
 
 
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