Best Soul Searching: Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility

Soul Searching: Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility by Basic Books

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 psychotherapy’s overemphasis on individual self-interest and calls for a sense of moral responsibility in therapy.

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Best The Mystery of Goodness and the Positive Moral Consequences of Psychotherapy

The Mystery of Goodness and the Positive Moral Consequences of Psychotherapy by W. W. Norton & Company

In a society that oscillates wildly between extremes of moralizing and corruption, how do we define, much less foster, "goodness"?

Mary Nicholas, in this engaging and provocative book, explores the relationship between psychotherapy and the enhancement of goodness. The book explores not only the morality of clients, but also the moral role of the therapist and how this is shaped by specific biases toward amorality, which are inherent in Western culture and science. Nicholas believes that therapy can have positive moral results, from loving more and better to the search for truth and the pursuit of life over death, as well as mutuality in personal relationships and the larger community. Each chapter contains lively clinical anecdotes from individual, couples, and group therapy to illustrate the points made. Attention is paid throughout the book to how moral issues can be addressed in therapy without shaming the client.Read more The Mystery of Goodness and the Positive Moral Consequences of Psychotherapy

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