Psychotherapy and Moral Inquiry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20400613 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Eaton (Newbury, UK,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 367-386 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory & Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-3543 • E-ISSN: 1461-7447 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0959354302012003271 |
| OpenAlex | W2080248959 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
Psychotherapy is necessarily an investigation into questions concerning individual intentions, purposes and the pursuit of the good life. Therapeutic inquiries centre on the motives-implicit and explicit-that underpin clients' actions. The motives examined may be formulated by the therapist in terms of theoretical or everyday vocabularies of motive. Investigations of such motives for their moral and practical adequacy will constitute an apprenticeship in therapy for the client, leading to the pursuit of those virtues proposed by the therapeutic approach in question. In order to foster the therapeutic ideals of autonomy and personal decision, some hermeneutic reflection on the status of motive interpretations in therapy is desired. Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics offer a means of reflecting on therapeutic method, making the moral thrust of psychotherapy more explicit, and avoiding premature constructions of the subject
Apprenticeship · Autonomy · Epistemology · Hermeneutics · Psychotherapist · Therapeutic relationship · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
Discourse and social change
Psychotherapy without Foundations
Psychological Inquiry and the Pragmatic and Hermeneutic Traditions
Therapy as Theory and as Civics
A Concept Becomes a Passion
Beyond Empathy
Wittgenstein and Justice
On Recognizing Mistakes
Philosophical Hermeneutics
Gadamer, Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason
Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive
Governing the Soul - a Quarter of a Century On
Rethinking Context
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2010 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |