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

By Windy Dryden , Arthur Still

Book information

Publisher
Karnac Books
Year
2012
ISBN
1780490232, 9781780490236
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
704 kB (720570 bytes)
Pages
272\266
Time added
2013-01-18 18:44:23

Description

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

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