I use the term ‘psychotherapy’ as the name of a freely contracted relationship between two competent and responsible adults, one paying the other for assisting him, by means of a dialogue, to live his life better. In addition, I distinguish sharply between voluntary psychotherapy, whose wellspring is the patient's need for helping the Self and involuntary interventions called ‘psychotherapy’, whose wellspring is the family's (or the court's) need for controlling the Other. The former rests on consent, the latter on coercion. It is just as absurd to conflate voluntary and involuntary ‘psychotherapeutic’ relations as it is to conflate sexual relations between consenting adults and sexual assault called ‘rape’.