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In this chapter, I try to formulate a general theoretical statement which includes therapy and empowerment processes while addressing politics as well. It first occurred to me that political discontent may translate into power on reading an email a colleague of mine wrote about something that happened to her in her own therapy.1 Here is what she wrote:
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Avissar, N. (2016). The Alchemy of Psychotherapy: Transforming Discontent into Power. In: Psychotherapy, Society, and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57597-5_10
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