It Is Time We Stopped Colluding

Abstract

I argue here that we psychotherapists in the private sector bear our own share of responsibility for the institutionalization of a two‐tier system of psychological care and therapy. We are on aggregate a profession of the self‐employed, focused on the self‐development of the individual who can afford to pay our fees. As a profession we appear to be relatively blind to the living conditions of the less well‐off citizens in our society and to the ethics of collective responsibility.