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Following a television program concerning the dangers of the lack of control on persons practicing psycho therapies, the author wrote to the program host* questioning certain implicit messages underlying the production. He finds it unfortunate that no psychotherapiste were included in the discussion .group* and that the 4 * accused** in the film had no opportunity to present their opinion* He then points out that some of the elements reproached in the film are also found among professionals i the publicity, the anxiety-provokirig effect of certain methods on observers and the lack of training necessary to be a psychotherapist. Reflecting on the meaning of the tendency towards smcli a dichotomy between "good diploma-holders** and **bad non-diploma-hoiders**>> he puts forward two responses. On the one hand that such a position tends to veil the limite, the risks of abuse9 the uncertainties* the conservatism and the partializing effect of professionalism. On the other hand, more profoundly, that it has a tendency to negate our vulnerability and our suffering as "snbjete">> Thus the program missed the "subject"->> having placed itself on the side of material goods and their protection>> all of which is reassuring but Utopian.
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