Philosophy and Psychotherapy

Difference, Seduction and Event of Philosophical Methodology for Psychological Therapy: Critical Essay on «Inversion of Auto-psychotherapy for Psychotherapy»

by Sergey Weinstein

Published in "Perm State University Bulletin. Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology. 2011. Issue 2 (6).pp.48-60"

The article is in Russian. Аuthor's manuscript

Article represents phenomenological research for our-time psychotherapy as a thematic region constituted by... more Article represents phenomenological research for our-time psychotherapy as a thematic region constituted by anti-phenomenological notions. Critique of psychotherapeutic ability to self-foundation by diversity of “market pluralism” and unity of “generic monism” is performed due to affirmative assumption of transcendental truth for psychotherapy. Psychotherapeutic foundations in timelines considered as the premise for feasible use of contemporary philosophical notions to ultimate understanding of psychotherapy. Some concrete resumes towards general methodology for psychotherapy are offered. Contemporary psychotherapeutic texts exemplify discussed issues.
The initial differentiation of philosophy, psychotherapy and philosophy for psychotherapy enables establishing a redundancy of “postmodern”. Psychotherapeutic difference takes in as intensiveness of explications for history of conceptions and actuality of positions. Articulation of difference-intensiveness brings to interpretation of axial psychoanalytical program in terms of decay and fragmentation of social structure due to deconstruction of repressive structures for desire. Overcoming strategy leads to involvement psychotherapist subjectivity with retention of neutrality. Modern rationality for psychotherapy appeals to event in intersubjective space as evidence of truth for psychotherapy.

'Cognitive Behaviour Therapies in Britain: The Historical Context and Present Situation'

by Sarah Marks

Invited book chapter in Windy Dryden ed. Cognitive Behaviour Therapies, Sage Publications, in press, forthcoming January 2012

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book235179/samples#tabview=toc

Connective conceptual analysis and psychology

by Konrad Banicki

Theory & Psychology, 22(3), pp. 310-323.

Conceptual analysis, like any exclusively theoretical activity, is far from overrated in current psychology. Such a... more Conceptual analysis, like any exclusively theoretical activity, is far from overrated in current psychology. Such a situation can be related both to the contingent influences of contextual and historical character and to the more essential metatheoretical reasons. After a short discussion of the latter it is argued that even within a strictly empirical psychology there are non-trivial tasks that can be attached to well-defined and methodologically reliable, conceptual work. This kind of method, inspired by the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Peter Strawson (conceptual grammar), and Gilbert Ryle (conceptual geography), is proposed and formally depicted as being holistic, descriptive, and connective. Finally, the newly presented framework of connective conceptual analysis is defended against the “Charge from Psychology,” in a version developed by William Ramsey, claiming that conceptual analysis is based on psychological assumptions that have already been refuted by empirical psychology.

The delicate scientist practitioner

by Nick Drury

Wittgenstein and the tikanga of psychotherapy

by Nick Drury

Wittgenstein's ideas on intersubjectivity are closer to indigenous ideas than the Cartesian ideas currently dominating mental health.

Da eticidade própria às práticas psicológicas fenomenológico existenciais

by Herlon Bezerra

BEZERRA, Herlon A. Da eticidade própria às práticas psicológicas fenomenológico existenciais. (Apresentação Oral). I Seminário do Lab. de Psicologia em Subjetividade e Sociedade (LAPSUS) - “Consumo, Ética e Brasilidade”. 04 e 05.11.2004.

Num momento cultural em que não são mais possíveis nem as garantias fundamentais da tradição nem a referência moderna... more Num momento cultural em que não são mais possíveis nem as garantias fundamentais da tradição nem a referência moderna à vontade livre de um Eu soberano como instâncias últimas de decisão ética, jurídica e política, revelam-se as práticas psicológicas fenomenológico existenciais, em seu compromisso com aquele horizonte da trágica verdade humana, fundamento da irrepetível singularidade de seu existir que se subtrai por essência a toda captura por parte do conhecer, uma bem sucedida resposta cultural ao modo como se coloca contemporaneamente o problema irrecusável da verdade e sentido da ação humana no mundo – núcleo originário mesmo das questões éticas.

Philosophy as a Therapy of Psyche: From the Hellenistic Schools to Philosophical Counselling

by Konrad Banicki

It is an early draft of my PhD thesis. Its final version is available on request (konrad.banicki@uj.edu.pl)