Editing The Politics of Psychotherapy

Abstract

This introduction to a special feature on my edited book The Politics of Psychotherapy: New Perspectives (2006) places the book in the context of Western political and therapeutic culture since the 1960s, through the lens of my own political history over that period. It restates some of the key positions of the book, and argues – once again – that psychotherapy is inherently political; and also that therapeutic perspectives have a contribution to make to the new antiglobalization alliances.