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Some discussion of education and therapy is now necessary. Very crudely ‘education’ is often thought of as ‘what goes on in schools or classrooms’. Similarly ‘therapy’, (or more forbiddingly ‘psychotherapy’) is thought of as ‘what goes on in the analyst’s consulting room’. These oversimplifications ignore the common ground and the distinction between the two processes. Basically both education and therapy in their broadest sense are enabling processes from the point of view of educator and therapist, and ways of learning as experienced by the pupil or patient. The social context in which the processes are carried out are often different though sometimes similar. Sometimes even classroom teaching has a therapeutic element, sometimes (and perhaps more than is usually acknowledged) therapy includes an element of teaching. The difference is that education is mainly concerned with drawing out human potentiality and relating it to our cultural and historical human situation; whereas therapy is a specialized form of education aimed at healing hurts and damage, and thus dealing more directly with areas of sickness in human development. In so doing, therapy must sometimes but by no means always explore the deepest roots of human conduct. The processes of education cannot ignore these but they are used less self-consciously in the educational context. |
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