Psychotherapy practice, the practitioner, and the profession – in sickness and in health
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Although the word psychotherapy, from the Greek (psyche + terapia) meaning soul healing, has multi-disciplinary roots, some of which date back to ancient Egyptian times, contemporary psychotherapy is predominantly aligned with health and healthcare. In response, the first part of the article interrogates the ideal of health and cure promoted by theories of psychotherapy; criticises the lack of critical practice regarding diagnosis; advocates a two continua approach to both sickness and health in psychotherapy; and argues that psychotherapy both is and is not a health practice. The second part of the article takes up the issue of the identity of psychotherapists and, by means of a review of different definitions of psychotherapy and of the more critical and radical traditions within the discipline and practice, argues that psychotherapists both are and are not health practitioners. The third and final part of the article offers a critical case study of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists’ application for the state registration of its practitioners; and argues that such regulation and registration compromises the profession of psychotherapy, and thus that psychotherapy both is and is not a health profession.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.059 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".