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The standard view of psychotherapy as a treatment for mental disorders can obscure how therapy functions as a social practice that promotes conceptions of human well-being. Building on the philosophy of Charles Taylor, Smith examines the link between therapy and ethics, and the roots of therapeutic aims in modern Western ideas about living well.
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Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Means and Ends of Therapy
- The Ethics of Therapeutic Aims
- Therapeutic Ethics in "Technical" Therapies
- Different Therapies, Different Ethics: The Example of Psychoanalysis
- Psychotherapy Research: From Effective Techniques to Ethical Aspirations
- Conclusion: What Works? What Matters?
References
Index
Info autore
Kevin R. Smith is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a psychotherapist in private practice in Pittsburgh and supervises the psychotherapy training of psychiatry residents and doctoral students in clinical psychology. He has published papers on psychotherapy and phenomenological psychology.
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The standard view of psychotherapy as a treatment for mental disorders can obscure how therapy functions as a social practice that promotes conceptions of human well-being. Building on the philosophy of Charles Taylor, Smith examines the link between therapy and ethics, and the roots of therapeutic aims in modern Western ideas about living well.
