Retrieving the Virtues in Psychotherapy

Dueck, Al; Reimer, Kevin S.

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“…Rather, reason, understood to be a capacity that all rational persons could employ, was recognized as the God-given attribute through which truth might be constructed and gleaned. Dueck and Reimer (2003) referred to this as the "Cartesian wish that reason might supersede the fragments of tribal particularity" (p. 2). Truth was to be discovered from the natural order, as things really are, not from revelation or communal understanding.…”

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“…This search is conducted through the vast array of modern inquiries, from historiography to physics, and achieves self-reflective expression in modern philosophy. (p. 19) Dueck and Reimer (2003) stated that, Given the common basis for knowledge founded on doubt, the particularity of ethnic and religious traditions was eventually overshadowed. The Cartesian argument was compelling to a fragmented Europe rife with ethnoreligious dissent and armed conflict.…”

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The Great Divorce: Ethics and Identity

Goodman

Marcelli

2009

Pastoral Psychol

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Significant epistemological shifts took place during the modern period that led to the exclusion of ethical constructs of the human self. Subsequently, ethics or morality was systematically divorced from reason and human identity. This has left modern psychologies with impoverished languages for understanding morality and ethics, especially as it relates to human identity. Some of these changes and their subsequent effects are chronicled. Toward this end, three unique influences of the modern era are surveyed. First, it is argued that the nature of reasoning and rationality underwent a significant shift in definition and emphasis, becoming autonomous and secular. Second, it is suggested that the scope of inquiry was restricted to the natural order, creating an immanentization of knowledge. Lastly, it is argued that modernity ushered in a promotion of and preoccupation with the individual subject. The context of each influence are explored, along with a subsection in each describing how the effects of these impacted the growing divorce between ethics and human identity.

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The Great Divorce: Ethics and Identity

Goodman

Marcelli

2009

Pastoral Psychol

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“…While this process seeks to articulate the goals of the counseling relationship from the perspective of the client's tradition, it inevitably will involve the perspective of the counselor's own tradition. Thus, counselors should inform their clients about their ethical commitments as they intersect with the client's problems and obtain the client's consent to bring them to bear on the relationship (Dueck & Reimer, 2003). The counselor and client can then work together in assessing and cultivating the virtues that will enable the client to reach these goals and live life more fully.…”

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Virtues, Values, and the Good Life: Alasdair MacIntyre's Virtue Ethics and Its Implications for Counseling

Stewart‐Sicking

2008

Counseling and Values

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The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre's critique of modern ethics and his virtue-centered alternative suggest that counseling can be considered a form of applied virtue ethics, helping clients cultivate the qualities necessary to live the good life. Although similar to developmental theory and positive psychology, this perspective also questions whether counseling is value neutral and suggests that counseling should account for the (often hidden) traditions, virtues, and practices of the good life it promotes. Comparison with spiritual direction suggests ways counseling can apply the insights of this model ethically within a pluralistic setting.

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“…Is the normative view of culture secular or religious (Dueck and Reimer 2003)? Except for a few chapters on morality in ICP, one would think that the world's population was not religious and that religion is not integral to indigenous psychologies.…”

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Constantine, Babel, and Yankee Doodling: Whose Indigeneity? Whose Psychology?

Dueck

Ting²,

Cutiongco

2007

Pastoral Psychol

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This essay addresses the issue of indigeneity in terms of local cultures. The authors do so in conversation with Kim, Yang, and Hwang's recent book, Indigenous and Cultural Psychology: Understanding People in Context. The life and work of Virgilio Enriquez is reviewed briefly as an exemplary indigenous psychologist. He illustrates the possibility of an indigenous psychology with a local, regulative grammar of cognition, affect, behavior, and relationships. The accounts of the tower of Babel and Constantine point to the irreversible damage of homogenizing culture and imposing it on other cultures. We argue that the imposition of a local, particular Western psychology on a global scale might risk a similar cost. The authors propose that current research in indigenous psychologies might take more seriously the notion that culture is not monolithic but should be understood from the point of view of the analysis of power relationships. Secondly, the authors argue that the role of language has not received sufficient attention in terms of shaping thought and increasing the incommensurability between cultures. Thirdly, it is argued that positivist epistemology has dominated the field and that more hermeneutic approaches must be considered. Fourth, the question must be asked regarding who controls indigenous research. Too often control has been exogenous rather than in the hands of local leaders. Finally, it is suggested that North Americans would do well to examine and recognize the indigeneity of their own psychology.

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Retrieving the Virtues in Psychotherapy

Cited by 20 publications

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The Great Divorce: Ethics and Identity

The Great Divorce: Ethics and Identity

Virtues, Values, and the Good Life: Alasdair MacIntyre's Virtue Ethics and Its Implications for Counseling

Constantine, Babel, and Yankee Doodling: Whose Indigeneity? Whose Psychology?

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