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Originally Posted by here today
Part of that experiment was doing as one was told to another human being (the participants thought) in the privacy of the room. Under the instructions of the authority, yes. The similarity with therapy, which I left out of what I said, is the authority which comes from therapists' role, their license, and perhaps their training, which are given -- authorized? -- to them by society, by social context.
Not a one-to-one analogy for sure. But Bud's quote did bring that experiment to my mind.
The Stanford prison experiment is another one about the effect of social context. Not a lot of similarity with therapy, maybe, but still illustrates the effect that context can have.
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I see what you are saying. I just don’t see in what way therapist’s license and training authorize causing harm. Society authorizes therapists to provide therapy, not whatever other things.
By this logic teaching license authorizes teachers to molest students and nursing license authorizes abuse of patients. In every profession people have an opportunity to mistreat and abuse. Especially helping type professions. It doesn’t mean profession itself is any way authorizing mistreatment of anyone.