Post-Truth: The World Therapy Made!

by Peter Philippson

My thesis in this paper is that the people of the psychotherapy world, including Gestalt therapists, bear part of the responsibility for a world where truth has become fragmented, split off from the physical world of sensory and motor experience, and there is no obvious way for people to share through difference or to question assertions made that are ‘flatly contradicted’ by physical evidence. We have done this by a misreading of Husserl’s phenomenology, supported by a culture of confluence and thus an unwillingness to stand out with authority, or to say ‘no’ to someone else’s way of experiencing things.

11 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 5, 2020