Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Introducing philosophical health: the healing dimension of making-sense, Luis de Miranda (University of Turku, Finland)

Part I: The Self
1. Living for Real, not Counterfeit: ‘Self-honesty’ as a Foundation for Philosophical health, Eugenia I. Gorlin (University of Texas, USA)
2. Existential-Phenomenological Approaches in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy to the Idea of Philosophical Health, Lehel Balogh (Hokkaido University, Japan)
3. Mechanisms, Organisms and Persons: Philosophical Health and Person-centred Care, Michael Loughlin (University of West London, UK)
4. State of Equanimity (Samata) as Philosophical Health: A Perspective from the Bhagavad-Gita, Balaganapathi Devarakonda (University of Delhi, India)
5. Logical Constructivism in Philosophical Health, Elliot D. Cohen (National Philosophical Counseling Association, USA)

Part II: The Others
6. The virtue of vulnerability: Merleau-Ponty and Minuchin on the Boundaries of Personal Identity, Laura McMahon (Eastern Michigan University, USA)
7. Philosophical Health, Non-violent Just Communication, and Epistemic Justice, Raja Rosenhagen (Ashoka University, India)
8. Philosophical Health, Meaning, and the Role of the Other: a Hermeneutic Approach, Dennis Schutijser (Pontifical Catholic University, Ecuador)
9. Ubuntu: An Afro-communitarian Approach to Philosophical Counselling and Health, Richard Sivil (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
10. What is it like to Counsel like a Philosopher? A Phenomenological Reading of Philosophical Health, Andrei Simionescu-Panait (Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania)
11. Artificial Intelligence and Philosophical Health: From Analytics to Crealectics, Luis de Miranda (University of Turku, Finland)

Part III: The World
12. Professionalisation and Philosophical Ill-health: Maladies and Counsels, Matthew Sharpe (Deakin University, Australia) and Eli Kramer (University Wroclaw, Poland)
13. Philosophical Health and the Transformative Power of Storytelling, Abdullah Basaran (Hitit University, Turkey)
14. Decolonization as Philosophical Health, Brendan Moran (University of Calgary, Canada)
15. Philosophical Health in Entangled Cosmopolitan Posthumanism, Jacob Vangeest (Western University, Canada)
16. East Asian Somatic Philosophies as Guides to a Philosophically Healthy Life, Lehel Balogh (Hokkaido University, Japan)
17. Philosophical Health, Crealectics and the Sense of the Possible, Luis de Miranda (University of Turku, Finland)

Methodological epilogue
Sense-making interviews looking at elements of philosophical health (SMILE_PH), Luis de Miranda (University of Turku, Finland)

Promotional Information

Drawing on ancient philosophy, philosophy as a way of life, and key thinkers from Kant to Foucault, this is the first volume to explore the pioneering theory and practice of philosophical health.

About the Author

Luis de Miranda, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Philosophy Department of the University of Turku, Finland, and a Fellow of the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS). A philosophical counsellor for individuals and institutions or corporations, he is also an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, and the founder of the Philosophical Health International network.