Is psychotherapy a science?
Or is it an ideology?
Does it work through indoctrination?
Or is it a conversation?
John Eaton discusses these questions using materials from Freud, Reich, Lazarus, Wolpe and Eysenck as well as critiques of psychotherapy from Szasz, Gellner, Labov & Fanshel, Wittgenstein, Foucault and Gadamer.
He analyses transcripts from therapeutic interviews by Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis and Fritz Perls...