The New Rational Therapy: Thinking Your Way to Serenity, Success, and Profound Happiness - Hardcover

Cohen, Elliot D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0742547337 ISBN 13: 9780742547339

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc., 2006

Synopsis

Throughout the ages, great thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Aquinas,Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, and many others have had incredibly useful things to say about overcoming the strife of everyday living and attaining happiness. Unfortunately contemporary approaches to psychology have made only limited use of this guidance. At last, here is an uplifting psychology that systematically applies the wisdom of the ages to attaining life pregnant with insight, meaning, value, and purpose. Guided by the vision of great minds, this book shows you how you can still feel secure and hopeful in a precarious, uncertain universe; face evil with life-affirming courage; build self-esteem, respect for others, and global reverence; become your own person; take control of you're emotions and behavior; strengthen your willpower; confront moral problems creatively; build rapport and solidarity with others; and hone your practical decision-making skills. Unlike classical approaches to rational psychology that only scratch the surface of what's deeply wrong in your life, The New Rational Therapy gets to the core and offers you penetrating, philosophical antidotes for transcending your malaise, and for attaining an enduring, profound happiness.

About this title

From the Author:

This book is the first systematic philosophical counseling approach to use philosophical wisdom to treat some of the most destructive fallacies endemic to humankind. For example, many people suffer from metaphysical insecurity as a result of making perfectionistic demands on a universe inherently imperfect. Standard psychological approaches are not equipped to deal with this metaphysical malais because the philosophical insights needed to overcome it are outside the purview of classical psychological training. In this book, I have identified eleven cardinal fallacies that tend to create the lion share of self-inflicted, needless human suffering; and I have provided many potent antidotes to these fallacies gleaned from the history of philosophy. The book shows how living philosophically according to these lights can help you better cope with the stresses of ordinary living, and, what is more, aspire to a life pregnant with deeper meaning, insight, value, and purpose.

About the Author:

Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D., is executive co-director and co-founder of the American Society for Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy; professor and chair at the Indian River College; editor-in-chief and founder of The International Journal of Applied Philosophy and The International Journal of Philosophical Practice. Author of twelve books and numerous articles, his most recent book on philosophical counseling is What Would Aristotle Do? Self-Control through the Power of Reason. Other recent books include Philosophers at Work: Issues and Practice of Philosophy; The Virtuous Therapist: Ethical Practice of Counseling & Psychotherapy; and News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and its Threat to Democracy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0742547337
• ISBN 13: 9780742547339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288