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(in: http://members.aol.com/jmrussell/philosas.htm) The Philosopher as Personal Consultant by Michael Russell, Phd. I have a problem with the concept of 'psychotherapy.' If it weren't for that, I could get right to my main point, which is that therapy-which I would prefer to call personal consulting-- is something for which being trained in the discipline of philosophy is every bit as good an ac..

Philosophical counseling (pc) is a branch of philosophy which emerged in early 1980s in Europe as an independent discipline. Some philosophical counselors maintain that "many philosophic schools of antiquity" did not regard philosophy as "merely teaching abstract theory, or the exegesis of texts", but rather "the art of living". They mean by that, pc has a long history as philosophy itself. As i..