Marks Sarah
Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
Hist Human Sci. 2017 Apr;30(2):3-16. doi: 10.1177/0952695117703243. Epub 2017 Apr 20.
This article will briefly explore some of the ways in which the past has been used as a means to talk about psychotherapy as a practice and as a profession, its impact on individuals and society, and the ethical debates at stake. It will show how, despite the multiple and competing claims about psychotherapy's history and its meanings, historians themselves have, to a large degree, not attended to the intellectual and cultural development of many therapeutic approaches. This absence has the potential consequence of implying that therapies have emerged as value-free techniques, outside of a social, economic and political context. The relative neglect of psychotherapy, by contrast with the attention historians have paid to other professions, particularly psychiatry, has also underplayed its societal impact. This article will foreground some of the instances where psychotherapy has become an object of emerging historical interest, including the new research that forms the substance of this special issue of .
本文将简要探讨一些将过去用作谈论心理治疗作为一种实践和职业的方式，它对个人和社会的影响，以及相关的伦理辩论。它将展示，尽管关于心理治疗的历史及其意义存在多种相互竞争的说法，但历史学家在很大程度上并未关注许多治疗方法的知识和文化发展。这种缺失可能会导致一种暗示，即治疗方法是在社会、经济和政治背景之外作为无价值取向的技术出现的。与历史学家对其他职业，特别是精神病学的关注相比，对心理治疗的相对忽视也淡化了其社会影响。本文将突出心理治疗成为新兴历史研究对象的一些实例，包括构成本特刊实质内容的新研究。
