[Why has psychotherapy failed in its social mission?]

The following are the principal reasons why psychotherapy has not lived up to expectations in respect to its social task: its misunderstanding of itself in that it strives to be a science or a teaching of cure, whereas it can and should be the teaching of adequate address and reply; its fatal mistaking of materialism for substantiality; its submission to the pressure of public opinion and its slogan: I am good, because I am well. I am well, because I am good; Its ambition to know the person ("I know who you are"), instead of aiming to understand him ("I know what you mean"); its conception rigidly set on alternative -- and antipodal thinking; its equation of good equals healthy; its rigidly one-sided stance in the matter of fees, in the matter of financial problems in general and towards the insured and insurance; its isolationism and its exclusivity.