Abstract
This paper highlights questions regarding the relevance of diagnosis and treatment methods within psychotherapy. (Psychotherapy is viewed as a separate profession with links to psychoanalysis, psychiatry and clinical psychology). The theses are as follows; Diagnosis and treatment are concepts which prevent therapists from viewing the client as a whole person. Therapists who diagnose client difficulties overlay client presentations with their own favoured perceptions. Treatment plans are usually made according to a defined modality which views the world through a set of theories instead of ideas created by client and therapist together. Diagnostic formulations and treatment plans are also culturally bound instruments which may result in therapeutic colonisation.
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