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John R. Peteet

Harvard Medical School

Is Justice a Treatment Goal for the Good Therapist?

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If being just in the first order is a virtue, it would seem relevant in mental health care – as a treatment  goal for some individuals, perhaps as an ingredient in the process of therapy, and as a characteristic of a good therapist.

Welcoming input from those to whom one is rightly accountable seems (a) to involve an assessment of the just basis of the relationship, and (b) to be an expression of justice, i.e. of giving what is due.

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  1. Theology Brief Preview1
  2. Preview Response45Current
  3. Theology Brief1
  4. Disciplinary Brief20
  5. Disciplinary Note6
  6. Theology Brief Postscript1