The article by James Hansen (October issue) makes out a good case for distinguishing therapy from psychiatry. This case has of course been made before, and it certainly holds water. The problem has been that we have never had a therapy version of the DSM – whatever number. So we have been unable to answer the question – “What are you going to put in its place?” But now we have.

New thinking in psychotherapy leads us to understand our ‘selves’ as incorporating various I-persons, different voices or multiplicity within the person

The letter from Keith Silvester in the November 2007 issue makes the point that my article on the Dialogical Self did not mention psychosynthesis, with all its excellent work on sub personalities

I was concerned by the oversimplification in Keith Tudor’s ‘Therapy is a verb’ (therapy today, February 2008)