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Article

Some Thoughts on the Licensing of Psychotherapists

Pages 151-153
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The author offers some reflections in response to James B. Smith's article “Licensing of Psychotherapists in the United States: Evidence of Societal Regression?” She considers how checks and balances in the form of licensing, registration, and/or membership in professional organizations to a great extent keep structures, procedures, and ethics codes intact. If the norms and procedures to earn these memberships are too rigid, they are oppressive and regressive; if they are too flexible, they are of no use. The author considers how to strike a balance between these extremes.

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P. K. Saru

P. K. Saru, M.A., LLB, is a psychotherapist and the only Muslim in the world who is an ITAA Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy). She takes great interest in correlating Indian philosophy with transactional analysis. She is the director of Asha Counselling and Training Services based in Coimbatore. She can be reached at .