Catchword: therapism

Filed under: English, Health

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: Once we saw ourselves as serving God, then science, then the state: now we turn inwards and serve ourselves, worship our individuality. This is what I mean by Therapism. It is a religion which began a hundred years ago in the consulting rooms of psychotherapists, and which now, in its wider social and political context, sweeps all before it.

Article or Document Title:
“Mind At The End Of Its Tether”

Author:
Fay Weldon

Article, document, publication, web site:
Guardian

Publishing location:
U.K.

Date of publication:
Jan. 11, 1997

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