This book provides a philosophical knowhow for solving issues that the human beings are often confronted with. The work is applied and interdisciplinary in nature. The author suggests that Philosophical methods can be effective in understanding and solving intra-personal, inter-personal and social conflicts; hence Clinical Philosophy is an applied philosophy of integral health. The book offers expertise for solving human problems in an empirically and logically congruent manner. The book has been written with a wide readership in mind-students of Philosophy, Psychotherapists, Medical Practitioners, Psychologists and Counsellors. The book also contains interesting Appendices, which is expected to benefit the aspiring Clinical Philosophers- or anyone who is desirous of using these principles in solving the human existential- predicaments. The central theme of the book is that the human cognition and the activities thereon are based on certain fundamental assumptions, and changing your Fundamental Assumption changes your worldview.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charles P. Alexander
Dr. Charles P. Alexander teaches Philosophy at Patkai Christian College, Nagaland. He took his M.A. (Philosophy), M. Phil. (Philosophy of Psychoanalysis) and Ph. D. (Philosophy of Psychotherapy) from the North- Eastern Hill Universality (NEHU), Shillong. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychopathology & Treatment (PGDPPT), Diploma of Para-Psychology in Hypnotherapy (DPPH), Doctorate of Homeopathic Medicine (HMD) and Diploma in Homeopathic Pharmacy (DHPh). He had undergone an Intensive training in Counselling & Transactional Analysis at the Institute for Counselling & Transactional Analysis (ICTA), Kochi. He ahs authored a number of articles in the area of Philosophy of Psychotherapy, Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Religion, in Journals of National and International repute. He has authored Hidden Fragments of Psychoanalysis (2001) and contributed a well- appreciated article “Ethos and Postulates of Nagas: A Philosophical Approach†to Rationality and Tribal thought (2004). In research and writing his central concern has been that of understanding the human consciousness, and the application of various Philosophical methods in alleviating the human suffering.
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