Reflections on purchasing psychotherapy services: The importance of unconscious factors

Author: Garelick, Antony

Source: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Volume 12, Number 2, 1998 , pp. 103-110(8)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

The ambivalence towards psychotherapy services, underlying oedipal anxieties and the sense of exclusion from the therapeutic dyad, is explored. Their significance and the role of unconscious factors and their interplay with organisational dynamics are discussed, drawing on personal experience. Their importance in the purchasing of psychotherapy services is considered and the development of helpful strategies is described.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02668739800700101

Affiliations: 1: Forest House, Psychotherapy Clinic, Thorpe Coombe Hospital, London, E17 8HP

Publication date: 1998-01-01

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