By Dr. Elya Steinberg
The Continuum We Refuse to Discuss: Pleasure, Meaning, and What Is Missing in Psychotherapy and Medicine. When Did Doctors and Psychotherapists Forget About Joy?
Imagine entering a therapy session carrying not a problem, but a moment of genuine happiness. Imagine your therapist or doctor waiting — pen in hand — for the difficulty to arrive.
For many patients and doctors, this is precisely what happens. And for many therapists and physicians, however good their intentions, the training, theoretical frameworks, and even the language of their work orient them almost entirely towards suffering. Pathology. Wound. Deficit. What is broken, and how to mend it.
But what if repair is only half the story?
