Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy From Paradox to Wonder
Using the work of Wittgenstein, John Heaton challenges the notion of theoretical expertise on the mind, arguing for a new understanding of therapy as an attempt by patients to express themselves in an effort to see and say what has not been said or seen,
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Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy From Paradox to Wonder By John M. Heaton Regent’s University London, UK
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To Barbara: Te sine nil altum mens incohat (Georgics 3.42)
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Contents
Preface
viii
Acknowledgements
xi
List of Abbreviations
xiii
1 Introduction
1
2 Paradoxes
15
3 Scientism
33
4 Logic and Meaning
55
5 Initiate Learning
89
6 The Self and I
99
7 Trust and Wonder
127
References
145
Index
151
vii
Preface They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. All’s Well that Ends Well, Act 2, Scene 3, lines 1–6. In considering human disorders it is helpful to distinguish the natural order of things from the human order. The natural orde
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