Ethical considerations in psychotherapeutic systems

In the process of individual psychotherapy, the client and the therapist wo rk together towards clarifying the client's problems, unlocking vicious cir cles, opening new perspectives and creating a new narrative congruent with the client's experiencing. The real and undeniable situation in individual psychotherapy across different therapeutic systems is that therapists enter the therapeutic encounter equipped with their own vision of humanity and t heir own particular theory and methods of psychotherapy. Through the differ ences in power between therapists and clients and the powerful role of lang uage, clients in their dependent position are apt to assimilate the percept s and the ideas of their therapists. Consequently therapists tend to exert a dominant and influential force in their client's lives. This raises a mai n ethical concern: to what extent do therapists from different therapeutic systems really help clients to recover their freedom to live their lives co ngruent to their own authentic perceptions and experiences?