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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Duff R. Waring (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, York University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.366kg ISBN: 9780199689149ISBN 10: 0199689148 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 21 January 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1: 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 unturnedReviewsAuthor InformationDuff R. Waring (B.A., M.A., LL.B., Ph.D.) is a philosopher/lawyer who specialized in mental health law and psychiatric patient advocacy. He teaches currently in the Philosophy Department at York University where he specializes in ethics, bioethics, and philosophy of psychiatry. He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the author of Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery: An Egalitarian Approach to Patient Selection (Dordrecht, The Netherlands and New York: Springer, 2004). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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