The word “psychotherapy” is derived from the Greek psyche, meaning soul, and therapiea, meaning healing. Thus, psychotherapy is “soul healing,” the term used by ancient philosophers to describe important functions of philosophical reflection and investigation: to help people live a good life, seek answers to the most vexing personal questions, and bring their souls into consonance with the nature of existence and being.
Contemporary psychotherapy still relies on conceptual foundations, methods, and principles that are overtly or implicitly philosophical. Philosophical counselor Samir Chopra, author of Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide, explores the history of philosophy understood as therapy in ancient and modern traditions and explains the methods and techniques of modern philosophical counseling.
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