What can philosophy offer counselling and psychotherapy?
Titel:
What can philosophy offer counselling and psychotherapy?
Auteur:
Howard, Alex
Verschenen in:
British journal of guidance & counselling
Paginering:
Jaargang 28 (2000) nr. 3 pagina's 411-419
Jaar:
2000-08-01
Inhoud:
The big questions about life and its meaning belong to, and must be explored within, our culture as a whole and not just to groups of medical or counselling specialists. Talking treatments would therefore benefit by drawing from broader and deeper intellectual and artistic traditions. Philosophers, for example, have considered questions about identity, meaning and purpose for millennia. Given that moral development has in no way kept pace with technological progress in the 20th century, we would be unwise to draw only from contemporary thinkers in making sense of our predicament. We cannot escape from philosophy: when people say that they do not know any philosophy, what is really meant is that they know only one philosophy, but they have no means of locating or assessing it. As a result, it structures everything they do and care about. It also prevents them from considering alternatives or placing immediate preoccupations into a larger perspective.
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