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    The LBT Types of Perfectionism in the Five Elements System.Veronica Bâtcă - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):194-211.
    This article showcases the underlying logic of LBT and the Five Elements (5e) system from Chinese philosophy, in the context of philosophical practice. The ten types of perfectionism from LBT are thought out in the 5e frame. This endeavor shows that Logic-based Therapy and the Five Elements System work well together in practice, especially in understanding the client’s problem and identifying an uplifting philosophical strategy.
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    Rx Metaphysics.Matthew M. Daude - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):142-156.
    Recent research on the structure of life-narratives and narrative identity suggests that meaning-making and narrative coherence are predictive of adjustment and resilience. I argue that the metaphysical presumptions operative in a client’s worldview are fundamental elements of meaning-making, and that these presumptions contribute to the life-narrative’s distinctive capacity to guide us through life-challenges. This application of metaphysical methodology to client worldviews represents a systematic extension of logic-based therapy. In this paper, I articulate a conceptual framework for worldview analysis and reconstruction (...)
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    Truth and the Pursuit of Happiness.Kristin Drake - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):124-141.
    Amid the current mental health crisis, the limited perspectives of psychology and medicine fail to adequately explain and treat generalized anxiety and depression. Viewing these phenomena simply as illnesses to cure conceals what underlying issue their occurrence might indicate, which I argue is the failure to properly assume moral responsibility for oneself. Borrowing from the ethical accounts of both Aristotle and Simone de Beauvoir, I suggest that the core of responsibility is the discernment of the truth of reality for oneself, (...)
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    The Utility of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Philosophy for Philosophical Counseling.Guy du Plessis - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):252-277.
    This article explores the potential utility of certain features of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical concepts for philosophical counselling. Central to the philosophical counseling process is philosophical counsellors applying the ideas of philosophers or philosophical system to inspire, educate, and guide their counselees in dealing with life problems. For example, the philosophical practice methodology of Logic-based Therapy, developed by American philosopher Elliot Cohen, provides a rational framework for confronting problems of living, where the counselor helps the counselee find an uplifting philosophy that (...)
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    Connecting Philosophies.Chhandasi Kalamkar - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):307-319.
    MIND—The complex organ in human beings that determines the way we think, live. It guides the entire course of our life. The mind is a complex structure. In today’s era we are constantly bombarded with information and the test of time is to take in the right amount of information and use it constructively. The mind can be easily diverted by distractions. In order to understand this flickering nature of mind there was an attempt to dive deep into the analysis (...)
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    Savoring Words.Adam Lalák - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):1-18.
    Philosophical counseling helps people see issues in their lives more clearly by making them the subject of philosophical conversations. For the most part, the language used during such conversations is phenomenologically transparent to the interlocutors, which means that it exists only at the background of their attention. However, there are exceptions. Sometimes, especially when dealing with particularly deep or elusive issues, some counselors find it appropriate to bring the language itself to the forefront of the client’s attention. This way of (...)
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    Stoic and Buddhist Wisdom for Modern Life.Imi Pui Yin Lo - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):96-123.
    This study explores the convergence and disparities between The Dhammapada, a classic Buddhist text, and Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, aiming to synthesize their social and ethical doctrines as practical life directives. Over five months, the researcher meticulously analyzed the texts, elucidating core arguments and linguistic nuances. Three main sections delineate shared principles, integrated teachings for ethical living, and theoretical distinctions. It emerges that Buddhism and Stoicism harbor congruent tenets, offering pertinent guidance for contemporary life when harmonized.
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    L(G)BT Concerns.Erica Nichols - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):232-251.
    Logic-Based Therapy and Consultation (LBTC) employs the use of guiding virtues—productive thought patterns and beliefs- through the use of shame-attacking exercises. Many transgender individuals experience dysphoria, which involves an extremely negative rating of oneself due to the mismatch they experience with their internal identity and bodily construction. This results from several kinds of emotional reasoning, like damning the world for being bigoted and hateful, or feeling trapped and unable to push through these struggles due to the awfulness of these experiences. (...)
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    Blaming the Victim.Peter B. Raabe - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):157-167.
    When mental suffering and distress are diagnosed as so-called “mental illnesses” it locates the cause as within the afflicted person. A close examination of the life situation of the distressed person will most times show the cause as originating external to the sufferer. Mental distress can arise with any number of troubling life situations such as financial or relationship problems, illness or death in the family, ethical dilemmas and so on. But diagnosing the person as having a biological brain problem (...)
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    The Double Valence of Trauma in the Age of Techno-Surveillance.Ross Channing Reed - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):180-193.
    As a philosophical counselor, I encounter many individuals who live with an almost inexpressible grief, hopelessness, and despair. This paper argues that two macro-causes of these affects are philosophical and structural. This paper sets up a distinction between (1) biotic, ontological, rational value, and (2) abiotic, hyperreal, nihilistic value. Abiotic “value” now constitutes the hemorrhagic nihilism of our time. Kant, Nietzsche, Baudrillard, and Kierkegaard will be utilized to construct the philosophical argument tracing the movement from the biotic to the abiotic. (...)
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    Analysis of the Role of Philosophical Counselling in Nurturing Dynamic Leadership.Smita Shukla & Priya M. Vaidya - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):212-231.
    The need to nurture dynamic leadership in all possible ways is felt all the more today in the world. Leadership must be aligned with the world where it can be stated that the world is too complex and is rapidly changing and hence, one person alone cannot provide all the answers. Dynamism in thought, word and action can certainly benefit the leader, the organization as well as the country in diverse ways. Leader can no longer be a person - a (...)
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    The Philosopher’s Can’tstipation.Andrei Simionescu-Panait - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):64-77.
    Can’tstipation, or capacity disavowal, is a key topic and issue in Logic-Based Therapy and Consultancy. It also is a popular issue among clients of general Philosophical Practice. Despite the assumptions regarding the wisdom and detachment of philosophers from common problems, they are not immune from can’tstipation. On the contrary, philosophers develop their specific ways of being can’tstipated. LBT lists seven types of can’tstipation. Throughout this text, I will describe the custom-tailored versions of these seven types in the life of the (...)
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    The Development of Philosophical Practice in a Hospital Context.Helge Svare - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):78-95.
    This article examines what comes to pass when philosophical practitioners start working in the institutional environment of a hospital, with its unique norms and culture through the experience of three philosophical practitioners in Norway. It finds that that a notable characteristic of these practitioners is their effort to avoid taking on the traditional helper role, which they perceive that other hospital professions are representing. Their ideal is to approach “life here and now” with openness, acceptance, curiosity, and wondering, while simultaneously (...)
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    Experts in Not Knowing.Maria daVenza Tillmanns, Sergey Borisov, Claartje van Sijl, Anca C. Tiurean, Maria Papathanasiou & Paulina Ramirez - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):278-306.
    This article develops the ideas of infinite questioning and emergent dialogue as key characteristics of philosophical consultations. The authors have been members of a philosophical circle for several years, in which these and other aspects of the philosophical consultations have been shared, considered, and reflected upon, leading to the contouring of an integrated, embodied and dynamic approach, which is going to be described with reference to supporting theory and practice. Authors’ professional expertise ranges from philosophy with children, with parents, with (...)
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    Threads of Understanding.Anca Cornelia Tiurean & Mara Bumbuc - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):33-63.
    Interpretation is a multifaceted ability which serves to understand and convey meaning accurately and effectively, in diverse contexts, while using the available data parsimoniously, plausibly and comprehensively. Its role in philosophical counseling is wide: it opens perspectives, it reveals one’s level of anchoring in common sense and evidence, sharpens one’s sensitivity to detail, promotes self-reflection, facilitates the exploration and examination of ideas and one’s particular understanding of them. It also promotes critical reflection and learning to handle differences of opinion effectively (...)
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    The Philosophical Café.Adriana Vlaicu - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):19-32.
    Through a number of various factors and circumstances, I have come to hold my own philosophical café in the city I currently live in: Timișoara, România. What I had planned to be a monthly occurrence, turned into a bi-monthly one at the request of the public. Thus, since the first edition we have had twenty-two such meetings, with a brief vacation during the summer months. What I have in mind with this article is to make an analysis of the development (...)
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    The Thought of Suicide.Piotr Łączyński - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Practice 10 (1):168-179.
    Main object of present work is to analyze thought embodied by Nietzsche’s aphorism from fourth part of Beyond Good and Evil: “The thought of suicide is a strong means of comfort: it helps get us through many an evil night” as potential tool to restore control over one’s own life during the strong existential crisis. An idiographic approach is assumed. There are proposed three theoretical cases which are the results of author’s direct life experiences and reflections. These cases of applying (...)
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