There is a recurrent danger that psychotherapy may provide for the practitioner an escape from a personal moral chaos he cannot deal
with. In such cases the therapist may easily come to treat his patient as a simplified two-dimensional version of
reality, & in that way attempt to
retreat to a more manageable reality than the one he must inhabit himself.
Psychotherapy can thus too readily become a highly
intellectualised defence for the therapist. And the elaborated institutions of
therapy all too easily shore up this defence.
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