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Originally Posted by hiddencreations
Scott Peck was a pop, almost cult-ish, psychiatrist. Most of his theories, which are largely religion-based, were grounded in his own experience as a psychiatrist and his ideas haven't been supported by research.
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Why do you assume that most therapist use this model? I would bargain that they majority of therapist do not seek to replace love that was never received during childhood, but rather to help a person to cope and deal with the their past/present/future by self re-parenting and knowing that they do not have to be stuck in a generational pattern of maladaptive coping.
Now, how is that achieved? For some, especially those who have a Rogerian therapist, it tends to be through unconditional positive regard, which with the common definition does not equal unconditional love or does not even have to involve love at all.
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As the article linked above says, he was America's "all-time best-selling psychiatrist". So not like he was obscure.
I dont know that most therapists subscribe to this model explicitly, and probably would not use the language Peck uses, but if they are not doing essentially what he advocated, what
are they doing?
Unconditional positive regard is a logical impossibility. If a therapist claims to offer this, they are manipulating the client. I do agree that some therapists would not claim to offer love in any form, but the re-parenting things seems almost universal.