| Philosophy and Psychotherapy Contributor(s): Erwin, Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803975201 ISBN-13: 9780803975200 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $236.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - General |
| Dewey: 616.891 |
| LCCN: 96-071787 |
| Series: Perspectives on Psychotherapy |
| Physical Information: 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For those readers who favour an empirical-scientific approach to counselling and therapy, and who view therapy, at least potentially or in principle, as an objective science, this will no doubt be a very useful and informative book... We should be grateful that Erwin has set out more fully than anyone to date the specifically philosophical case for a science of therapy; and those of a New Paradigm persuasion at least now know the nature of the arguments they will have to refute in order to sustain their position. I look forward with eager anticipation to their efforts, and to an emerging and fruitful engagement between philosophy and therapy - for both have a great deal to learn from each other′ - Counselling, The Journal of the Br |
Contributor Bio(s): Erwin, Edward: - Edward Erwin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, and is the author or editor of a number of books, the most recent of which is the Freud Encyclopedia (1994). |