In Praise of Science
This is a letter that I had published in the BACP Journal, Therapy Today, December 2013. It was in response to an article. 'Spirit-based healing in the Black diaspora by Roy Moodley. (I had to look up 'diaspora', apparently it is a scattered population.) The article and subsequent letters, support the possible acceptance of traditional healing practices such as voodoo and shango into the counselling and psychotherapy communities. I have no objection to these practices in themselves and of course individuals and communities have every right to continue their ancient traditions but so do counsellors and psychotherapists, and I do not wish to have any association with them and so I wrote this letter. It made me laugh when I read it in the journal. , Dear BACP I have to have a rant. I nearl...