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Psychotherapy is more than a treatment. It is a weltanschauung—a point of view on the world. As WH Auden (1939/1979) wrote in his elegy on the death of Freud, “for us, he has now become, not a person, but a climate of opinion”.
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Paris, J. (2013). Therapy Culture. In: Psychotherapy in an Age of Narcissism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291394_7
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