Since there’s currently no academic field of study on therapy as a whole, I would argue that the contents of the post would be a reasonable starting point in forming one, or at least that it covers a lot of the same material (what therapy strives to do, what the base assumptions are, the various different theories of change that different therapy schools hold, setting out a system of classifying modalities, etc). I don’t think the post meets the rigor for a published paper, and such an academic field ideally would be focusing on studying effectiveness of each philosophy/modality, but it’s not unrelated to what I imagine a hypothetical Philosophy of Therapy field to focus its attention on.
If you disagree, could you say a bit more about what you would expect such a post using the name in that context to contain?
Since there’s currently no academic field of study on therapy as a whole, I would argue that the contents of the post would be a reasonable starting point in forming one, or at least that it covers a lot of the same material (what therapy strives to do, what the base assumptions are, the various different theories of change that different therapy schools hold, setting out a system of classifying modalities, etc). I don’t think the post meets the rigor for a published paper, and such an academic field ideally would be focusing on studying effectiveness of each philosophy/modality, but it’s not unrelated to what I imagine a hypothetical Philosophy of Therapy field to focus its attention on.
If you disagree, could you say a bit more about what you would expect such a post using the name in that context to contain?