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

Author/creator Waring, Duff William Ramus, 1955-
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoOxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Descriptionvi, 232 pages ; 24 cm
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SeriesInternational perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry
International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry. ^A704677
Contents Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction : Psychotherapy and virtue ethics -- Chapter synopsis -- Psychotherapy and the art of living well by being well. 2 Psychotherapy and the moderate skeptic's challenge : Introduction -- The secular confessional -- Psyche and life -- A tincture of pyrrhonism -- Conclusion. 3 Epistemic virtues in psychotherapy: a response to the moderate skeptic's challenge : Introduction -- Definitional parameters -- First argument: recasting the moderate skeptic's challenge as a virtue epistemologist -- Second argument: psychotherapy and the cultivation of epistemic virtues -- What virtuous epistemic regulation aims to avoid: interpretive force-fitting -- Epistemic goods in psychotherapy -- Limitations of a virtue epistemic response -- Further thoughts on the moderate skeptic's challenge -- Conclusion. 4 Reparative ethics: the nexus between mental health and moral virtue : Introduction -- The distinction between ethics and morality -- Ethical and moral values in conceptions of mental disorder -- The demoralized woman -- Ethical and moral values in psychotherapeutic praxis -- Ethical and moral values in conceptions of positive mental health -- Conclusion. 5 Psychotherapy and the virtuous patient : Introduction -- The virtuous patient -- Virtue-laden psychotherapy cases -- An apposite theory of virtue ethics -- Seneca's angry man -- From theory to practice: patient-related virtues in psychotherapy -- Counter-arguments and qualifications -- Responsibility with temperate affective blame -- Temperate affective blame and moral emotions in psychotherapy -- Conclusion. 6 The responsibilities of patients in a psychotherapeutic healing project : Introduction -- The responsible patient -- Moral and ethical patient responsibilities -- The virtues by which responsibilities are met -- Recovery virtues and positive mental health -- Authenticity as a virtuous way of living -- Conclusion. 7 Four psychotherapies and the triadic analysis : Introduction -- Authenticity and existential psychotherapy -- The demoralized woman redux -- Authenticity and Kohut's self-psychology -- Cognitive behavioral therapy -- Mentalization-based therapy -- Conclusion. 8 Caveats, summations, and stones left unturned. Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract Explores the intersection of psychotherapy and virtue ethics with an emphasis on the patient's work in a healing project. This common ground between the therapeutic process and the cultivation of virtues can inform the efforts of both therapist and patient. The ethics of psychotherapy revolve partly around what a therapist should or should not do as well as the sort of person that a therapist should be: e.g., empathic, prudent, compassionate, respectful, and trustworthy. The ethics of a therapeutic dialogue can also revolve around the sort of person a patient should be. This work pforwardward an argument for patient virtues that are crucially relevant to psychotherapy, e.g., honesty, perseverance, and hopefulness. The author's central idea is that treatment may need to build virtues while it ameliorates problems. As a virtue epistemic and virtue ethical endeavor, a psychotherapeutic healing project can both challenge a patient's character and result in its further development.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages [211]-226) and index (pages [227]-232)
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ISBN9780199689149 (pbk.)
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