The healing virtues : character ethics in psychotherapy

The healing virtues : character ethics in psychotherapy / Duff R. Waring.

'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 therapi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waring, Duff William Ramus, 1955- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:International perspectives in philosopy and psychiatry.
Subjects:
Psychotherapy > Moral and ethical aspects.
Psychotherapist and patient.
Virtue.
Medical personnel and patient.
Character.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Medical personnel and patient
Character
Virtue
Psychotherapist and patient
Psychotherapy > Moral and ethical aspects
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Table of 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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