3. Give 1 and 2 and the fact that therapy works for some reason and the fact that different types of therapeautic theories contradict each other, therapy must work not only because because it improves the patient’s map of the territory, but also by another mechanism.
It felt to me like the overview of the therapeutic philosophies suggested a partial answer to this one: part of why different therapies contradict each other is that they describe different parts of the territory / have different mechanisms of action. E.g. if behaviorist therapy changes a person’s conditioning and systematic therapy looks at the social system they are in, then there doesn’t need to be a conflict: a person has their own individual conditioning, and that conditioning is also affected by the signals that they get from their social system. (Both are describing the same territory but emphasizing different aspects / levels of it, kind of analogous to physics and chemistry.)
It felt to me like the overview of the therapeutic philosophies suggested a partial answer to this one: part of why different therapies contradict each other is that they describe different parts of the territory / have different mechanisms of action. E.g. if behaviorist therapy changes a person’s conditioning and systematic therapy looks at the social system they are in, then there doesn’t need to be a conflict: a person has their own individual conditioning, and that conditioning is also affected by the signals that they get from their social system. (Both are describing the same territory but emphasizing different aspects / levels of it, kind of analogous to physics and chemistry.)