IJSP Number 4, 2022

61 that needs maybe help but preferably companionship, understanding and empathy. And maybe, given that strange theory of resonances, the need for help, as the entrance ticket in therapy, should ring a bell for the professional because, after all, it is very possible that we are all interconnected and, as such, most of what happens does not happen by chance. Once companionship is set as a base for interhuman relations in every social field, there is no more (or less) place for disease and patients, or clients and corresponding services, but there will be a wider field to manifest human feelings of compassion, empathy, understanding, and mutual interconnectedness. Actually , it is not about healing, or treating, or ‘therapeutising’ but more of enhancing the quality of life as R. Williams, alias Patch Adams, says in the movie. Everyone that arrives in the cabinet comes there because of a poor quality of life; besides having a problem, as they all usually say. Even a psychologist who goes to his or her supervisor, goes there to explicitly talk about his or her difficulties, respectively of a not so good quality of life. And maybe even the supervisor sits in his or her expert chair wanting a better quality to their own lives… It is sad to see that courses, schools, and universities, training programs, and teachings that tend, directly and explicitly or indirectly and implicitly, to cover, or in some cases to erase all humanness that is still left in us in order to replace it with the specialized and sophisticated know-how of a particular field, being it medical, psychiatric, psychological, or psychotherapeutic. As Doctor Dean Walcott (played by Bob Gunton) says, in the above- mentioned film: “It is our mission here to rigorously and ruthlessly train the humanity out of you and make you into something better. We’re gonna make doctors out of you.” [3]. But by making doctors out of us, or psychologist for that matter, they have to hide our inherent humanity and level out all its sharp edges because, as the same Dean Walcott says in the movie, humans are not trustworthy, they are weak, have problems, cheat, and so on – they are not reliable as subjects for scientific experiment and, they are unable to qualify for the supreme objectiveness required by scientific protocol. In spite of that, psychologists and psychotherapists have to deal with these same unreliable persons because they have problems and issues, they themselves cannot manage without help. It is only one thing to be done in the field: rethinking of the core structure of the therapeutic relationship by (re)considering humanness, companionship, empathy, and the opening of the dialog from soul to soul. REFERENCES [1] Callenbach, E. (2014). Ecotopia, Banyan Tree Books in association with Heyday, Berkley, California. [2] Lennox, A., Stewart, D.A. (1983). Sweet Dreams (are Made of this), Sunbury Music Ltd. [3] SHADYAC, T. (director) (1998). Patch Adams , Universal Studios, USA.