[The limits and power of psychotherapy: a critical reading]

The psychotherapy has been founded as "scientific" discipline since the separation from philosophy and mainly religion. During the last two decades, the increasing frequency of groups that hide sectarian and religious aims behind the psychotherapy denomination, forces two tasks. On one hand we must propose the foundations of the psychotherapeutic process and the methods to evaluate its effects. On the other hand we must highlight that in these groups some procedures and behaviours are the opposit of the psychotherapy principles. In such cases we can talk of "denied psychotherapy".