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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462442403321

Autore

Dryden Windy

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©2012

ISBN

0-429-90677-3

0-429-48200-0

1-280-68613-8

9786613663078

1-84940-992-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

616.891

616.8914

Soggetti

Rational emotive behavior therapy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.