Therapeutic Ethics in Context and in Dialogue

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-52497-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 108 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 150 g

Reihe: Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

The standard view of psychotherapy as a treatment for mental disorders can obscure how therapy functions as a social practice that promotes conceptions of human well-being. Building on the philosophy of Charles Taylor, Smith examines the link between therapy and ethics, and the roots of therapeutic aims in modern Western ideas about living well.

This volume builds on a complementary volume (The Ethical Visions of Psychotherapy), to explore therapeutic conceptions of human flourishing. Smith illustrates how therapeutic aims implicitly promote ideas about a good life, even though therapists rarely tell their patients how they should live. Taylor’s history of the modern identity provides a framework to examine the historical and cultural origins of therapeutic ethics. Utilizing Taylor’s work on practical reasoning and ethical debate, Smith considers the prospects for dialogue between the divergent ethical visions promoted by different psychotherapies.

A key text for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduate students, and professionals in the fields of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, theoretical psychology, and philosophy of mind.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Kevin R

Smith, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Beratungspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

- Sources of Therapeutic Ethics and the Prospects for Dialogue

- Therapy Against Ethics and the Ethics of Therapy

- Therapeutic Ethics and Charles Taylor’s History of the Modern Identity

- From the Ethics of Therapy to Ethical Dialogue

Appendix: Charles Taylor for Therapists: A Brief Introduction

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin R. Smith is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, USA. He is a psychotherapist in private practice in Pittsburgh, USA, and supervises the psychotherapy training of psychiatry residents and doctoral students in clinical psychology. He has published papers on psychotherapy and phenomenological psychology.