ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the relationship between the child and the adult is not only of vital importance to the child but also to the adult. Both children and adults need to be able to be trusted, and to trust themselves to play with each other through being subject—to play. In considering well-being, societal and individual perspectives need to be considered. This calls for something other than what we currently understand as the psychological therapies. Therapeutic education through counselling and psychotherapy can therefore take on the values of individualism and autonomy, but this is not inevitable. From Socrates, therapeutic education can be seen to be about awakening thought rather than instilling knowledge. Plato can be regarded as understanding Socrates as the best example of somebody who abounded in the consciousness of well-being—making the soul as good as possible. Furthermore, for Plato, both the way in which Socrates lived and died was evidence that virtue and well-being are inseparable.
