Greetings APPA members and friends, Attached you will find some questions that you might find of interest. My best to each of you, Pierre Grimes also at...
Dear colleagues: My name is José Barrientos and I am professor at Vasco de Quiroga University and I am research at University of Sevilla. I have been working...
Hi CArlo, If I ask you, or your doctor asks you, "How are you feeling?", can you answer this question? You might not say the same thing tomorrow as you do...
Peter Raabe
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Oct 31, 2009 11:43 pm
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Hi Peter, well can they be serious ? - it's possible for "doctors" to "measure" the severity of "depression" using 21 questions ??? as a philosopher I can't...
Hi Carlo, Which part do you think is a joke? And why? Peter ... I took a quick glance at the link you gave and I noticed this sentence --> "Doctors measure...
Peter Raabe
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Oct 8, 2009 7:22 pm
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I took a quick glance at the link you gave and I noticed this sentence --> "Doctors measure the severity of depression using the "Hamilton Rating Scale of...
Hi Shlomit, Our articles combined give a rather bleak picture of anti-depressant medications: They don't work and they give you lots of side effects. Hmmm......
Peter Raabe
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Sep 29, 2009 3:24 pm
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Interesting, but it is not very strong on the real harm done by these medications (something I could observe in several persons I met). The following urls are...
Hi all, Have you seen the study on anti-depressants at the link below? http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050045 Peter ...
Peter Raabe
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Sep 28, 2009 3:58 am
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You raise very important questions. Whatever are the answers of various pcs, it is certainly not part of the mainstream of Westerrn philosophical tradition,...
Ora Gruengard
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Sep 20, 2009 4:58 pm
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Hi all, i want to invide you to the Colloquium of the International Society for Philosophical Practice (ISPP / IGPP) in Wuppertal/Germany. Title: "Sokrates auf...
Michael Niehaus
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Sep 20, 2009 7:24 am
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Arto, excuse me if I sounded offended. I am sorry as well that I will not answer your long list of questions posted on this list. But as my personal hint: I...
Shlomit, please do not get offended by my remarks. The basic issue was the difference between a goal-oriented style of PC and the so-called free and open...
arto tukiainen
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Sep 18, 2009 4:29 pm
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My reference to "mirroring" was just a way of saying that some sort of self-knowledge and self-understanding is on the agenda of most philosophical counselors....
arto tukiainen
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Sep 18, 2009 4:11 pm
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It is an analysis of psychic contents and attitudes, but Freud would not have allowed to calii it psychoanalysis. Ora psyche ----- Original Message ----- From:...
Ora Gruengard
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Sep 18, 2009 3:51 pm
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It is in Being and Nothingness. I do not think he ever practiced that, but Lacan seems to have borrowed some aspects: the idea of a universal anxiety because...
Ora Gruengard
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Sep 18, 2009 3:37 pm
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Carmen, you can read at the below link in context that Achenbach thought/thinks that PP is psychoanalysis and a critique of it. (pp 39 of PP:AC&P) ...
Interesting Ora. Why did Sartre use the word psychoanalysis then, and not another word? (hahaha, that was a joke) I really had no idea. I will read about it. ...
Carmen, As far asI know the idea of a "philosophical psychoanalysis" is borrowed from Sartre, and has more or less nothing to do with Freud's psychoanalysis or...
Ora Gruengard
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Sep 18, 2009 2:52 am
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Hi Shlomit, I read in your new website that your work as a Philosophical Counselor and as a Philosophical Psychoanalyst. ("Professional activities :...
Philosophical counselors should not pretend yo be therapists, nor assumes a priori that their clients need therapy. Epicurians and Stoics indeed assume that...
Ora Gruengard
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Sep 17, 2009 10:41 pm
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Arto, I explained before that to me, pc has something in common with Rogers in that it respects the client as a type of friend and that there is a dialogue...
Maybe there's a continuum between two kinds of philosophical counselors. There are those who have a fairly well articulated idea of what they want to offer in...
arto tukiainen
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Sep 17, 2009 3:45 pm
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Arto, Everything we havw read xan be relevant, and the counselee normally does not ask for a course in the history of ideas, but as [hilosophers it is not our ...
Ora Gruengard
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Sep 17, 2009 12:50 am
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Ora, I think it is obvious that PC is not teaching. But I feel that familiarity with a wide range of alternative philosophies of life enhances one's ability to...
arto tukiainen
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Sep 16, 2009 3:57 pm
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Arto, I have nothing against listening to remote cultures: They can offer new (or re-newed) perspectives, which enlarhes our horizons. I'm less enthousiastic ...
Ora Gruengard
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Sep 15, 2009 9:31 pm
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Hello, Shlomit: "Concerning re-inventing PC: the aims and the ways of the ancient were quite different." Well, perhaps not that different. There's a lot to be...
arto tukiainen
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Sep 15, 2009 9:37 am
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Peter, your paper includes many interesting points. One of them is that "mental disorders" of various kinds are often referred to as causes of symptoms, while...
arto tukiainen
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Sep 15, 2009 7:06 am
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Arto, Independly of Shlomit's and Ran's opinions, openness should not mean that other traditions should (unlike mine own tradition) be beyond criticism just...