This marks the end of privacy (the Sex Inspectors or Supernanny Channel 4 for example) and also the erosion or end of choices, personal reflectiveness and responsibility. In many respects, it very much feels like self-health on Speed. There may be many possibilities for the soaring number of these programs; boredom, medium that has exhausted itself etc. but the process remains, as Chomsky put it:

‘….people would like to think that there is somebody up there who knows what he’s doing. Since we don’t participate, we don’t control, we don’t even think about questions of vital importance. We hope somebody is paying attention who has some competence. Let’s hope the ship has a captain….’ (Noam Chomsky- The Chomsky Reader).

As an Existential Psychotherapist, my concern is to open the dialogue and facilitate a reflective space for my clients. I adhere to allow them a place to think through by being in therapy with me. Through this process, I am going through some change. There are no certain set perceptions, predications or outcomes that are aimed at. With all its complexities, this process is open and facilitative one. Facilitative for the client’s needs at a particular point in time and that may be different from one client to the other. Clients may want to be able to take some stance or to abandon it, to get lost or to find a way through the issues that brought him/her to therapy and as I see it the list of possibilities is as long as human ones.

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