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I was concerned by the oversimplification in Keith Tudor’s ‘Therapy is a verb’ (therapy today, February 2008)
Cavalier elimination of future?
I was concerned by the oversimplification in Keith Tudor’s ‘Therapy is a verb’ (therapy today, February 2008). After mentioning Clarkson’s five-relationship model, he rejects it in favour of his own four-relationship model, based on the two dimensions of present-centred and past-centred. This neatly gets rid of the transpersonal relationship, which is often future-centred (as are other approaches such as solution-based therapy). How come the future gets eliminated in this cavalier fashion? On the other hand, the article has to be praised for mentioning Jessie Taft, who is well worth our attention.
Dr John Rowan
www.johnrowan.org.uk
