My book Mental Health Philosophy is coming out soon, and I am trying to promote it.
I feel it is is invaluable for people who are interested not only in mental health but in their loved ones, and the state of the world itself.
This book is about mental health and the discipline of counseling, but it is really has much larger a scope. Philosophers will be deeply interested, counselors and psychologists, but every day people as well.
Please help me promote my book by reposting this and sharing it with your friends.
Here is a quote from the chapter The pause, or epoche: into practice that defines discipline:
Our problem with mental health is an ideological problem, the one that prompts theoreticians to place the theory before the fact, to usurp that fact into the theory as though there was never a knowable fact. This is the detour 20th century philosophy took which has landed us in epistemological badlands. From an historical perspective, the misplaced comprehension of industry, the catastrophe that was the World Wars, The Holocaust, the scare of the nuclear bomb, and the great neglecting exploitation of capitalism, frightened (and is frightening) everyone to such a degree that they doubted the ability of human beings to think, not just rationally, but sensibly. The very basis of the assumption of human rationality was breached. The reaction: question the content of thinking, separate one’s Self from knowledge, and blame knowledge the product of thinking instead of knowledge the presence of thought itself. So revolting the 20th century became in action, people simply could not trust themselves and implemented a new ideal for the focus of a modern faith: ideology and critical theory, the modern global religion and is apologetic method. From there we see a straight line to the ‘post-truth’ era we find ourselves in now, the backlash to recoup the actual lived experiences of real people contrasted to reactionary intellectualism, and the leaders who have jumped on the bandwagon of the residuum of such destroyed faith in humanity left over from a century of
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