Abstract
I dedicated my new book In, Against and Beyond Therapy (reviewed in this issue) to Richard Mowbray, author of the 1995 book The Case Against Psychotherapy Registration: A Conservation Issue for the Human Potential Movement, for (as I put it) producing a book which ‘has done so much to seed the kinds of radical counter-cultural ideas about therapy practitionership and professionalisation that are at the heart of this book’. Anyone with a keen eye for history might well be interested in revisiting the many exchanges between Richard and our humanistic colleagues that appeared in Self and Society in the mid-1990s, as the arguments we engaged with then haven't really changed in principle over the intervening period.