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1 online resource |
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International perspectives in philosopy and psychiatry |
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International perspectives in philosopy and psychiatry
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| Contents |
Cover; Series; The Healing Virtues; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Psychotherapy and Virtue Ethics; 1.2 Chapter Synopsis; 1.3 Psychotherapy and the Art of Living Well by Being Well; 2 Psychotherapy and the Moderate Skeptic's Challenge; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Secular Confessional; 2.3 Psyche and Life; 2.4 A Tincture of Pyrrhonism; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 Epistemic Virtues in Psychotherapy: A Response to the Moderate Skeptic's Challenge; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Definitional Parameters |
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3.3 First Argument: Recasting the Moderate Skeptic's Challenge as a Virtue Epistemologist3.4 Second Argument: Psychotherapy and the Cultivation of Epistemic Virtues; 3.5 What Virtuous Epistemic Regulation Aims to Avoid: Interpretive Force-Fitting; 3.6 Epistemic Goods in Psychotherapy; 3.7 Limitations of a Virtue Epistemic Response; 3.8 Further Thoughts on the Moderate Skeptic's Challenge; 3.9 Conclusion; 4 Reparative Ethics: The Nexus Between Mental Health and Moral Virtue; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Distinction Between Ethics and Morality |
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4.3 Ethical and Moral Values in Conceptions of Mental Disorder4.4 The Demoralized Woman; 4.5 Ethical and Moral Values in Psychotherapeutic Praxis; 4.6 Ethical and Moral Values in Conceptions of Positive Mental Health; 4.7 Conclusion; 5 Psychotherapy and the Virtuous Patient; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Virtuous Patient; 5.3 Virtue-Laden Psychotherapy Cases; 5.4 An Apposite Theory of Virtue Ethics; 5.5 Seneca's Angry Man; 5.6 From Theory to Practice: Patient-Related Virtues in Psychotherapy; 5.7 Counter-Arguments and Qualifications; 5.8 Responsibility with Temperate Affective Blame |
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5.9 Temperate Affective Blame and Moral Emotions in Psychotherapy5.10 Conclusion; 6 The Responsibilities of Patients in a Psychotherapeutic Healing Project; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Responsible Patient; 6.3 Moral and Ethical Patient Responsibilities; 6.4 The Virtues by which Responsibilities are Met; 6.5 Recovery Virtues and Positive Mental Health; 6.6 Authenticity as a Virtuous Way of Living; 6.7 Conclusion; 7 Four Psychotherapies and the Triadic Analysis; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Authenticity and Existential Psychotherapy; 7.3 The Demoralized Woman Redux |
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7.4 Authenticity and Kohut's Self-Psychology7.5 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; 7.6 Mentalization-Based Therapy; 7.7 Conclusion; 8 Caveats, Summations, and Stones Left Unturned; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
'The Healing Virtues' explores the intersection of psychotherapy and virtue ethics, with an emphasis on the patient's role within a healing process. It considers how the common ground between the therapeutic process and the cultivation of virtues can inform the efforts of both therapist and patient |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 13, 2016) |
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Psychotherapy -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Psychotherapist and patient.
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Virtue.
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Medical personnel and patient.
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Character.
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Psychotherapy -- ethics
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Professional-Patient Relations
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Virtues
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Character
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
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Medical personnel and patient
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Character
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Virtue
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Psychotherapist and patient
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Psychotherapy -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191003172 |
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0191003174 |
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