“Therapeutically, conversations around self-worth and income are a necessary part of any good psychotherapy, even if the patient seems reluctant to bring them up at first. As psychotherapists know, it is never about the money but more about the feelings that money can hide.” MoneySelf WorthPsychotherapy Author:Silvia Dutchevici
“Critical therapy aims at individual and social transformations.” PsychologyPsychotherapy Author:Silvia Dutchevici
“Love for the patient and with the patient is the ultimate gift of therapy. Both patient and therapist change as a result of this intimate relationship, developed over time amid stories of horror, anger, shame, fear, as well as beauty, hope and healing.” LovePsychologyPsychotherapy Author:Silvia Dutchevici
“Power is a dynamic between human agency (the way individuals influence the world) and social structures (structures of domination that determine to what degree individuals may influence the world). It can be coercive, repressive, or negative; it can also be a productive force.” PowerPsychology Author:Silvia Dutchevici
“Aside from offering therapeutic comfort and therapeutic insight, therapy also becomes a performative practice where patients actively reflect on their own power and their relationship to the ongoing project of an unfinished democracy.” PowerDemocracyPsychologyPsycotherapy Author:Silvia Dutchevici