The Inversion of Therapeutic Responsibility
Perceived Client Vulnerability, Paternalistic Protection, and the Strange Abandonment of the Client in Contemporary Psychotherapy - A Position Paper of the Clinical Effectiveness Institute
Sarah Ozol Shore
Sarah Ozol Shore, MS, is a the founder of the Clinical Effectiveness Institute focused on clinical effectiveness as a requirement for ethical practice. Her work examines why sound therapy fails to produce structural change and what makes it possible.
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