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This paper suggests that therapists' tendency to ignore the impact of their own religious beliefs on their patients constitutes an area of potential abuse of psychotherapy. The author reviews the religious stance of the founders of psychotherapy, as well as recent criticisms of the therapeutic process, and proposes steps to safeguard against the inadvertent fostering of therapists' religious views on the patient.
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Humphries, R.H. Therapeutic neutrality reconsidered. J Relig Health 21, 124–131 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02276776
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