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Don Woollen has written an essay, "A Preliminary Study of Stoicism as Psychotherapy," which provides a model of Stoic Psychotherapy, and which is the basis of my understanding and will be the basis of my presentation of Stoic Psychotherapy.
A Preliminary Study of Stoicism as Psychotherapy
This essay will consider the thesis that there is within Stoic philosophy,
a distinct and interesting theory of human psychology which entails not
only a normative account of human growth and development but also a corresponding
theory of psychopathology based on that account. The theory also encompasses
a system of therapeutic techniques formulated to expose and correct these
pathologies. In sum, there exists what can only be described as, a unique
and well-formulated system of Stoic Psychotherapy.
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