Retrieving the Virtues in Psychotherapy
Thick and Thin Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3758438 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Al Dueck (Fuller Theological Seminary, corresponding author), Kevin Reimer (Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary), Kevin S Reimer (Biblical Theological Seminary) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 427-441 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764203256948 |
| OpenAlex | W1963681774 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article considers the possibility that democratic liberalism is a virtue tradition. Given the centrality of the liberal tradition in American psychotherapy, the clinician risks imposing a particular set of virtues on the ethnic or religious client. A review of the historical and philosophical foundations of liberalism suggests that psychotherapy is a moral encounter based on its handling of virtue language. Liberal psychotherapy may, when it displaces the client's tradition, contribute to a departicularized self. Drawing on the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre and Michael Walzer, an argument is developed that the meaning and cultivation of virtue is context dependent. Suggestions are offered for a tradition-sensitive psychotherapy that functions emically within the client's own virtue grammar. A concluding case study illustrates tradition-sensitive, virtue psychotherapy with a conservative Jewish seminary student
Argument (complex analysis) · Centrality · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Liberalism · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Virtue · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
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Possibilities for a Christian Positive Psychology
Psychotherapy as Moral Encounter
The Great Divorce
Religion-specific resources for meaning-making from suffering
Constantine, Babel, and Yankee Doodling
Ethics, Alterity, and Psychotherapy
Use of Religious Resources in Psychotherapy from a Tradition-Sensitive Approach
| Citations per year | 0.45 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2018 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |