TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dryden,Windy
AU  - Still,Arthur
TI  - The Historical and Philosophical Context of Rational Psychotherapy: the Legacy of Epictetus 
SN  - 9781849409926
AV  - RC480 .D384 2012
U1  - 616.891 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Karnac Books
KW  - Epictetus.
KW  - Epictetus
KW  - Psychotherapy
KW  - Stoics
KW  - Rational emotive behavior therapy
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Psychotherapy, Rational-Emotive
KW  - history
KW  - Philosophy, Medical
KW  - Stoïcisme
KW  - Psychothérapie rationnelle-émotive
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - stoicism
KW  - aat
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-214) and index; 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
N2  - 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 framew
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