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I. What are Values Worth?

Intimacy and Autonomy are Not Enough (Is TA a Middle-Class Tranquilizer?)

Pages 170-173
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Intimacy and autonomy are considered insufficient and too self-oriented to encourage people to deal with inequality and the conditions producing alienation and oppression. As long as TA is a belief system that does not recognize its own loopholes, it functions as a middle-class tranquillizer and an endorsement of the status-quo. The writer asks whether we in TA are part of the problem or part of the solution?

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Paschal Baute

Paschal Baute is a CM psychologist who, with his wife Janette, a psychiatric nurse, has a clinic and an Institute for training in Lexington, Kentucky. He has been and is active in the community in matters concerning health, education and youth, and has been a candidate for public office twice.