ABSTRACT
A review of the argument of the book re-states the role of Charles Taylor’s philosophical anthropology as a framework for the exploration of the ethical proposals of psychotherapy. The practices and theories of particular therapies were shown to implicate distinct ideas about living well. Psychotherapy research does not resolve fundamental ethical questions about therapy; its focus on empirical questions about efficacy tends to obscure the ethical nature of therapeutic aims. A brief summary is provided of fundamental issues that remain to be addressed: understanding the broader themes of therapeutic ethics in historical and cultural context and exploring the prospects for dialogue between conflicting ethical views. The latter topics are taken up in a companion volume, Therapeutic Ethics in Context and in Dialogue.
