ABSTRACT
In what is called 'individual psychotherapy', two people meet and talk to each other with the intention and hope that one will learn to live more fruitfully. In spite of significant variations, this, in general, is the form it takes. Whether the required help is of a technical nature or not is clearly an important matter in considering what resources in society can be tapped. Certain factors in the fields of both education and medico-social welfare are undoubtedly specialized. In his book Education for Liberation, Adam Curie writes, in a chapter entitled 'A Possible Future': Certainly everything will depend upon the quality of the teachers. Many people assume a progression from simple to specialized help - from 'befriending' to 'counselling' to 'psychotherapy' and then on to 'psychoanalysis' - yet find great difficulty in formulating the nature of the differences.
