The Big Answer

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Schaef advocates the new, ecological-holistic paradigm as a replacement for the old, mechanistic-reductionistic paradigm. He supports a community model of healing rather than a therapy model. She calls it the Living Process System. She had formerly burned out as a young psychotherapist. She saw that the helping professions were doing just enough good to get by, but not enough to cure the problem or preclude the patient getting dependent upon such “help.” They were too reductionistic and needed a systems approach—and of course a community is a people system. [Think MC. See Why Register for an MC?.]

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