The Historical and Philosophical Context of Rational Psychotherapy : the Legacy of Epictetus

The Historical and Philosophical Context of Rational Psychotherapy : the Legacy of Epictetus / Arthur Still and Windy Dryden.

This book brings together the papers written by the authors over the last fifteen years on the historical and philosophical foundations of Albert Ellis' Rational Psychotherapy (later Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, REBT) and its relationship to Stoicism, especially the later practical form r...

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Main Author: Dryden, Windy
Other Authors: Still, Arthur
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Karnac Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Epictetus.
Epictetus
Psychotherapy.
Stoics.
Rational emotive behavior therapy.
Medicine > Philosophy.
stoicism.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
Rational emotive behavior therapy
Medicine > Philosophy
Psychotherapy
Stoics
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Table of Contents:
  • COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE The place of rationality in Stoicism and REBT; CHAPTER TWO Ellis and Epictetus: dialogue vs. method in psychotherapy; CHAPTER THREE The intellectual origins of Rational Psychotherapy: twentieth-century writers; CHAPTER FOUR REBT and rationality: philosophical approaches; CHAPTER FIVE Rationality and the shoulds; CHAPTER SIX When did a psychologist last discuss "chagrin"? American psychology's continuing moral project; CHAPTER SEVEN The social psychology of "pseudoscience": a brief history.
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Historical aspects of mindfulness and self-acceptance in psychotherapyCHAPTER NINE Marginalisation is not unbearable; is it even undesirable?; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; INDEX.

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