The Historical and Philosophical Context of Rational Psychotherapy : The Legacy of Epictetus / by Windy Dryden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dryden, Windy, author.

Contributor:

Dryden, Windy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epictetus.

Rational emotive behavior therapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 represented by Epictetus. It goes beneath the well known similarities between Stoic "spiritual exercises" and modern psychotherapy, to look at the cause of these similarities. These lie in the conceptual continuities that connect the Stoics and other ancient philosophies with the modern cultural framework underlying psychotherapy.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-429-92100-4

0-429-90677-3

0-429-48200-0

1-280-68613-8

9786613663078

1-84940-992-7

9780429482007

OCLC:

795120242