The Historical and Philosophical Context of Rational Psychotherapy The Legacy of Epictetus

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 r...

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Other Authors: Dryden, Windy, author (author), Dryden, Windy (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge [2018].
Edition:First edition
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798259006719
Table of Contents:
  • 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