Description:

Szasz considers the role of responsibility in religion, civil and criminal law, medicine and the mental health professions; the differences among existential responsibility, moral blameworthiness and legal accountability; that connections between (mental) competence and responsibility; and relates all of the above to problems in psychotherapeutic theory and practice.

Educational Objectives:

1. To articulate the concept of responsibility as intrinsic to viewing persons as moral agents.
2. To relate our understanding of the nature of responsibility to our understanding of the nature of the therapeutic enterprise and reconcile the contradictions between them.

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*