For Psychology Today, David Elkins writes that “psychotherapy’s power to heal lies mainly in its human and relational aspects,” rather than any specific techniques or theories.
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I’m not certain why this is surprising. Humans have been helping humans heal forever. I helped my child heal from child abuse. If I’d let the psychiatrist or social worker who wanted to get their hands on him do so, he’d be a defamed and drugged up zombie. But with mom and dad’s love and help, he’s a kid who graduated high school as the valedictorian, and he’s got a 3.9 something so far in college. Of course, loving human relationships heal better than impersonal clinical theories. Especially, given today’s seeming psychiatric theology that it’s a okay to profiteer off of turning child abuse victims, into “schizophrenics,” with the neuroleptic drugs.
