EP90 Panel 12 - Therapy and Social Control - Mary Goulding, MSW; Jay Haley, MA; Salvador Minuchin, MD; Thomas Szasz, MD
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- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Psychotherapy | Case Discussions | Family Therapy | Supervision | Training
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990
- Faculty:
- Mary Goulding, MSW | Jay Haley, MA | Salvador Minuchin, MD | Thomas Szasz, MD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 02 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 15, 1990
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Description:
Educational Objectives:
- To compare and contrast clinical and philosophical perspectives of experts.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
Outline:
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Panel Introduction
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Steve Gilligan opens the panel "Therapy and Social Control" featuring Mary Goulding, Jay Haley, Salvador Minuchin, and Thomas Szasz.
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Mary Goulding’s View
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Questions the term "social control" and prefers "changing society."
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Advocates for therapists and clients becoming free thinkers and contributors to society.
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Criticizes societal selfishness and calls for personal change with social responsibility.
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Jay Haley on Deviance and Therapy
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Discusses the social function of deviance and historical handling through the justice system.
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Notes the shift to court-ordered therapy, turning therapists into state agents.
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Highlights challenges of working with involuntary clients and the ethical dilemmas involved.
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Salvador Minuchin’s Perspective
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Encourages a socially conscious but pragmatic approach to therapy.
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Shares work with foster care systems and integrating children into extended families.
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Promotes small, impactful systemic changes through collaboration with agencies and educators.
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Thomas Szasz’s Critique
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Rejects therapy as a form of social control and criticizes involuntary treatment.
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Argues therapy must be voluntary, not state-enforced.
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Compares coercive therapy to moral violations, emphasizing freedom and non-coercion.
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Debate: Therapy and Coercion
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Goulding and Szasz debate the legitimacy of therapy for involuntary clients.
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Goulding cites success in prison and juvenile therapy settings.
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Szasz insists all therapy must be non-coercive and criticizes state-funded programs.
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Audience Questions and Reflections
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Topics include confidentiality, mandated reporting, and civic involvement for therapists.
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Panelists discuss the tension between ethical obligations and legal requirements.
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Emphasis on therapists engaging in community action and political participation.
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Conclusion
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Panel closes with a call for ongoing dialogue about therapy’s role in social systems and ethical boundaries in state-involved practice.
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Credits
Faculty
Mary Goulding, MSW Related Seminars and Products
Mary Goulding, MSW, is one of the leading exponents of Transactional Analysis. Along with her husband Robert Goulding, she developed an approach called Redecision therapy which synthesizes Transactional Analysis and Gestalt. Together they founded the Western Institute for Group and Family Therapy in Watsonville, California, and co-authored two professional books about their approach. There is also an edited volume about the Redecision model. Mary has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Transactional Analysis Association and is a Teaching Member of that organization. Her M.S.W. was granted in 1960 from the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.
Jay Haley, MA Related Seminars and Products
Jay Haley (M.A., 1953, Stanford University) was Director of Family Therapy Institute of Washington, D.C. He was one of the leading exponents of the strategic/interpersonal approach to family therapy. Haley served as Director of the Family Experiment Project at the Mental Research Institute and as Director of Family Therapy Research at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. He has authoered seven books, co-authored two and edited five. Additionally, he has more than 40 contributions to professional journals and books. Haley is the former editor of Family Process, and the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of The Milton H. Erickson Foundation.
Salvador Minuchin, MD Related Seminars and Products
Salvador Minuchin, MD, developed Structural Family Therapy, which addresses problems within a family by charting the relationships between family members, or between subsets of family. He was Director of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. Although it was minimally staffed when he began, under his tutelage the Clinic grew to become one of the most modeled and respected child guidance facilities in the world. In 1981, Minuchin began his own family therapy center in New York. After his retirement in 1996, the center was renamed the Minuchin Center. Dr. Minuchin is the author of many notable books, including many classics. His latest is Mastering Family Therapy: Journeys of Growth and Transformation. In 2007, a survey of 2,600 practitioners named Minuchin as one of the ten most influential therapists of the past quarter-century.
Thomas Szasz, MD Related Seminars and Products
Thomas S. Szasz, (M.D., University of Cincinnati, 1944) was Professor of Psychiatry at the State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. He was recipient of numerous awards, including the Humanist fo the Year Award from the American Humanist Association and the Distinguished Service Award from teh American Institute for Public Service. He has received a number of honorary doctorates and lectureships, and served on the editorial board or as consulting editor for ten journals.
Szasz has authored approximately 400 articles, book chapters, reviews, letters to the editor and columns. He has written 19 books.