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Old Oct 21, 2016, 07:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Lauliza View Post
Scott Peck was a self help author and pop psychologist. He may have had plenty of followers at the time since his books were bestsellers, but his influence was on pop culture, not psychological theory or training. It's unlikely you'd find Ts saying they follow the work of Scott Peck.
Which would raise the question: so if his pop culture status means that therapists don't actually follow his work, and their appeal is to the masses, then don't his books serve as an advertisement for therapy, leading clients entering therapy to have unrealistic expectations of it, of unconditional love or reparenting or whatever? Also a problem.
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