They are "serving" an essential therapeutic purpose.
Orbach: Those examples make me think that such writing has a serious therapeutic purpose.
So can we really call books that may serve a therapeutic purpose failures?
But it then adds that the F.D.A. must ban rather than otherwise regulate a drug or device that cannot be used safely for any therapeutic purpose.
Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life.
While Mira Rehab is not alone in developing computer games for therapeutic purpose, Stanmore says that the company is ahead of the game.
It is, indeed, a perverse interpretation that reads the F.D.C.A. to require the ban of a device that has no safe therapeutic purpose where a ban is the most dangerous remedial alternative.
Not that "I Love Lucy" didn't serve a therapeutic purpose; it was undoubtedly a welcome diversion from the fears and tensions of the day -- the Cold War, the bomb, McCarthyism.
Similarly, pro-lifers oppose human cloning, even for the therapeutic purpose of generating stem cells, on the grounds that no one has the right to play God.
"There was no therapeutic purpose or intent to monitor and collect this data," said Jonathan D. Moreno, a professor of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
It serves as a diagnostic as well as therapeutic purpose.
