Cultural and political developments have a profound influence on the practice of psychotherapy. Three important developments are being reviewed in this article: the influences of new laws regarding health care, the profound changes from a relation-oriented to a knowledge-oriented attitude in the treatment of clients, and the change in the administration from a content-oriented to a management-oriented direction. These changes are of such profound importance, that they could be compared to landslides.
In these circumstances it is argued that a new way of thinking be introduced with regard to the political and cultural context of the practice of psychotherapy. This way of thinking should be introduced in the training, the supervision and the scientific activities of the associations.
The tPeP (Journal Person-centered experiential Psychotherapy) is the scientific journal for Dutch and Flemish psychotherapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, that work from, or are interested in a client-centered perspective.
