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The Healing Virtues
Character Ethics in Psychotherapy
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The Healing Virtues explores the intersection of psychotherapy and virtue ethics - with an emphasis on the patient's role within a healing process. It considers how the 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 therapists should or should not do as well as the sort of person that therapists should be: e.g., empathic, prudent, compassionate, respectful, and trustworthy. Contemporary practitioners have argued for therapist virtues that are relevant to assisting the patient's efforts in a healing process. But the ethics of a therapeutic dialogue can also revolve around the sort of person the patient should be. Within this book, Duff R. Waring argues
that there is a case for patient virtues that are relevant to dealing with the problems in living that arise in psychotherapy, e.g., honesty, courage, humility, perseverance. The central idea is that treatment may need to build virtues while it ameliorates problems. Hence, the patient's work in
psychotherapy can both challenge character strengths and result in their further development.

The book is unique in bringing the topic of virtue ethics to the psychotherapeutic encounter, and will be of interest to psychotherapists, philosophers, and psychiatrists.


Contents:

1: Introduction
2: Psychotherapy and the moderate skeptic's challenge
3: Epistemic virtues in psychotherapy and the moderate skeptic's challenge
4: Reparative ethics: the nexus between mental health and moral virtue
5: Psychotherapy and the virtuous patient
6: The responsibilities of patients in a psychotherapeutic healing project
7: Four psychotherapoes and the triadic analysis
8: Caveats, summations, and stones left unturned


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ISBN-13: 9780199689149
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: January, 2016
Pages: 256
Dimensions: 153.00 x 234.00 x 13.00
Weight: 366g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy
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