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I recently saw Irvin Yalom speak about his new book Schopenhauer's Cure. He spoke a little bit about an emereging therapeutic field called Clinical Philosophy. Essentially, Clinical Philosophy is based on the belief that some mental health issues can be treated by robustly grappling with philosophical issues.
Yalom said that the primary book to come forth from this movement is Plato, Not Prozac. He said he was interested to see what would happen with the movement, but he could not recommend that book because it was not very good.
I find the idea of clinical philosophy extremely interesting. Does anyone have anything to share or recommend regarding this field?
Yalom said that the primary book to come forth from this movement is Plato, Not Prozac. He said he was interested to see what would happen with the movement, but he could not recommend that book because it was not very good.
I find the idea of clinical philosophy extremely interesting. Does anyone have anything to share or recommend regarding this field?
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Re: Clinical Philosophy
Fri, February 25, 2005 - 7:44 PMNot much to share other than it is needed, and should already have been around, in my opinion. I like the basic premise, it rings rather true. I will be keeping my eye out for this new field, sounds very interesting.
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Re: Clinical Philosophy
Sun, October 30, 2005 - 5:57 PM"Does anyone have anything to share or recommend regarding this field?"
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I've always thought of Freud as a philosopher as much as anything else.
His batch of theories could be regarded as a philosophy, could they not?
Albert Ellis was always quoting The Manual of Epictetus, and other stoics.
I'm not familiar with Ellis's works, but the Manual of Epictetus itself is blessedly short, and quite interesting.
Maybe somebody else can give an Ellis synopsis?
Yalom himself is pretty interesting. In his "Existential Therapy", I read a short thing by him extolling therapy in group settings. It made me very curious about what the dynamics of a therapy group could be like. -
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Re: Clinical Philosophy
Sun, October 30, 2005 - 6:08 PMYalom wrote the standard textbook on group therapy:
www.amazon.com/gp/product...093-9844627 -
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Re: Clinical Philosophy
Sun, October 30, 2005 - 9:33 PMBarnaby, are there some big differences between the 'clinical philosophy' that Yalom was talking about in his lecture and the approaches that have been used before by these other theorists (like Ellis, say)? -
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Re: Clinical Philosophy
Sun, October 30, 2005 - 10:50 PMI am not familiar with Ellis. My impression is that the domain of Clinical Philosophy is, at this time, rather ill-defined and may apply to many different approaches.
I did find one woman in Berkeley who has a practice in philosophical counseling:
www.philosophycounsel.com/
She seems to be doing interesting work, but I haven't talked to her. -
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Re: Clinical Philosophy
Fri, October 24, 2008 - 6:35 AMPhilosophy and psychology are two peas in a pod.
But Existential philosophy and existential psychology are not direct parallels, as many would seem to think.
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