Socrates method in psychotherapy. Overholser J.

This book is designed to help specialists in the field of mental health approach therapy sessions from a more general, philosophical point of view, considering the problems of each client in the prospect of personal growth and development, and formulate a number of ideas and strategies directing the psychotherapist to the path of such necessary changes. James Overholser applied ideas first formulated by ancient philosophy to the realities that modern psychotherapy faces. In the Socratic method of psychotherapy, five processes and two main topics are distinguished. At the same time, the most minimal attention is paid to the removal of acute stress and solving specific problems. In general, the Socratic method is not aimed at solving the patient’s momentary tasks, but at helping him change his point of view on them and understand that the main goal is a change in lifestyle through self -improvement, and problems are just minor troubles that distract him from distracting him from The main task.

The main topics of the book:

- Psychotherapy as the therapy of the mind.

- self-improvement, spiritual growth and development.

- Ethics of virtue as a focus of psychotherapy.

- Psychotherapy from the point of view of Socrates.