BookDuff R. Waring.
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.