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is a good that's a return to what's worse.

Good sense is the form suggestion takes, comedy, that of laughter. Setting aside their quasi-incompatibility, does this mean that they are the whole story' That's the point at which psychotherapy, in any form, breaks down, not that it doesn't do some good, but it's a good that's a return to what's worse. (Lacan 1987 television: 12)

is a psychotherapeutic system like religion. Thus, the psychotherapist takes up the same task as the Lord: to heal the suffering of the human mind, of the human psyche or the human soul.

What are religions' Religions are psychotherapeutic systems. What are we doing, we psychotherapists' We are trying to heal the suffering of the human mind, of the human psyche or the human soul, and the religions deal with the same problem. Therefore our Lord himself is a healer... he is a doctor... he heals the sick and he deals with the troubles of the soul... and that is exactly what we call psychotherapy.

is a myth, a metaphorical treatment that stands in the same relation to medical treatments as editing television programs stands to repairing television sets.

Psychotherapy is a myth: Psychotherapeutic interventions are metaphorical treatments that stand in the same relation to medical treatments as editing television pro- grams stand to repairing television sets.

 provides conversations, not cures; cures of souls, now called 'successful psychotherapies' are what clients who engage in such conversations create, or fail to create, out of their contacts with psychotherapists.

Architects design houses, not homes; homes are what people create, or fail to create, out of their houses. Similar- ly, psychotherapists provide conversations, not cures; cures (of souls, now called 'successful psychotherapies') are what clients who engage in such conversations create, or fail to create, out of their contacts with psychotherapists.

is the psychiatric mystification and management of problems in living renamed as treatments.

Psychotherapy: The psychiatric mystification and management of problems in living renamed as treatments.

is genuine conversation. Genuine conversation is exploration, articulation and strategizing. When you’re involved in a genuine conversation, you’re listening, and talking—but mostly listening.

Psychotherapy is genuine conversation. Genuine conversation is exploration, articulation and strategizing. When you’re involved in a genuine conversation, you’re listening, and talking—but mostly listening.

is not advice. Advice is what you get when the person you’re talking with about something horrible and complicated wishes you would just shut up and go away.

Psychotherapy is not advice. Advice is what you get when the person you’re talking with about something horrible and complicated wishes you would just shut up and go away. Advice is what you get when the person you are talking to wants to revel in the superiority of his or her own intelligence. If you weren’t so stupid, after all, you wouldn’t have your stupid problems.

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