ABSTRACT
The first editorial chosen here is ‘Therapeia and therapeutic education’. It is important to me for two reasons. The first is because of the influence of Plato’s notion that while technical and scientific knowledge are important, we must try and make them come second to the resources of the human soul. The second is in order to develop Gadamer’s work so that one might see therapy as a means of assisting with an interrupted process of education, enabling a return to learning form experience. Plato’s notions of therapeia are developed further in my chapter ‘Audit, audit culture and therapeia: some implications for wellbeing with particular reference to children’ (2010) (which in turn, was developed from my chapter in House and Loewenthal, 2009). With regard to exploring therapy as a form of education, this is best developed in the article ‘Counselling and psychotherapy as a form of learning: some implications for Practice’ (Rose, Loewenthal and Greenwood, 2005).
