Issues in philosophical counseling / Peter B. Raabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raabe, Peter B., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical counseling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Raabe examines some of the most perplexing problems a client may present to a counselor and how a philosopher would deal with them. He provides a detailed philosophical discussion as well as illustrative case studies of some of the most important issues encountered in any counseling practice. The first six chapters discuss philosophical counseling in general terms, while the following 15 chapters deal with specific life issues such as the differences between how men and women communicate and how this is relevant to a counseling discussion, the role of medication in therapy, the concept of normalcy, the meaning of life, the motivation behind suicide, dream interpretation, and religious beliefs. An important resource for professionals, students, and scholars involved with philosophical counseling and applied/practical philosophy.

Contents:

Cover

ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELING

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Man Who Saved the World but Could Not Save Himself*

NOTES

Chapter 2 Philosophical Counseling in Brief

Chapter 3 Experimental Philosophy

Chapter 4 Clinical Philosophy

Chapter 5 Counseling and the Café

Chapter 6 E-mail Counseling

SUBJECT: CAREER DECISIONS

SUBJECT: SPIRITUALITY, SEXUALITY, AND RELIGION

SUBJECT: WHAT BELIEFS SHOULD CHILDREN BE TAUGHT?

SUBJECT: WHY ME?

SUBJECT: SUICIDE

SUBJECT: "CORRECT" CONSOLING

SUBJECT: A WIFE DEALING WITH HER OWN ANGER

SUBJECT: THE CHILDISH HUSBAND

SUBJECT: SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER?

SUBJECT: BUSINESS ETHICS

SUBJECT: DETERMINISM

Chapter 7 Sex and Logic

1. HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT NATURAL, SO IT IS WRONG

Response

2. THE BIBLE SAYS HOMOSEXUALITY IS WRONG, SO IT IS WRONG

3. EVERYONE AGREES THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS WRONG, THEREFORE IT IS WRONG

4. HOMOSEXUALS ARE A THREAT TO OUR CHILDREN, THEREFORE IT IS WRONG

5. HOMOSEXUALITY IS A THREAT TO THE FAMILY AND WILL DESTROY SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT, THEREFORE IT IS WRONG

6. HOMOSEXUALITY IS CAUSED BY MAKING A WRONGCHOICE IN SEX PARTNERS. IF BOYS AND GIRLS ARE RAISED PROPERLY THEY WON'T GROW UP MAKING WRONG CHOICES. THEREFORE HOMOSEXUALS ARE JUST POORLY RAISED INDIVIDUALS MAKING WRONG CHOICES

CONCLUSION

Chapter 8 Speaking Like a Woman/Listening Like a Man*

ORIGINS

AN OVERVIEW OF DIFFERENCES

Viewpoint

Relationships

Friendships

Discursive Styles

THE DIFFERENCES IN COUNSELING

Women

Men

Counselors

Some Differences in Discursive Styles

Chapter 9 Rational Passions*

EMOTIONS EXPLAINED.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE RATIONAL?

HERMENEUTICS OF EMOTIONS

Chapter 10 All Seriousness Aside

Chapter 11 Medicating the Mind

Chapter 12 Medicating the Mind: A Second Dose

Chapter 13 Getting to Normal

Chapter 14 Celebrating Affliction

Chapter 15 The Meaning of Life*

THE ACADEMIC

THE RELIGIOUS

THE PERSONAL

Chapter 16 Learning to Be Old

PHYSICAL CHANGES

MENTAL/INTELLECTUAL CHANGES

SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGES

EXISTENTIAL/SPIRITUAL CHANGES

Chapter 17 Suicide as Self-Defense

THE BIBLE

PHILOSOPHY OF SUICIDE

PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELING

Chapter 18 What Does God Have to Do with It?

Chapter 19 Dream Interpretation

1. WHAT IS A DREAM?

2. SIGMUND FREUD

3. CARL JUNG

4. THE PHILOSOPHY OF DREAMS

5. DREAM INTERPRETATION IN PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELING

Chapter 20 Duty to Oneself

Chapter 21 The Independent Philosopher

1. ADVICE TO INDEPENDENT PHILOSOPHERS

2. MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES

3. BE COURAGEOUS

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-235) and index.

ISBN:

9798400673146

9786610423088

9781280423086

1280423080

9780313013225

0313013225

OCLC:

53401266