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2020-03-01 APPA - Philosophical Midwifery and the Platonic Tradition

Synopsis This is Pierre Grimes' fifth in a series of articles on the subject of philosophy, philosophical counseling, philosophical midwifery, and The Self, published in Philosophical Practice , the journal of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (of which Pierre was the founder) with permissions of the author and the editor. It is reproduced here under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license . Pierre is the inventor of philosophical midwifery in its modern sense, and has been practicing it since his days with Alan Watts in the 1950's. His book, Philosophical Midwifery: A New Paradigm for Understanding Human Problems , with Regina Uliana PhD, was published in 1998 (ISBN-10 softcover: 0-9648191-1-2; hardcover 0-9648191-2-0) and is available from Hyparxis Press. Abstract Each of the approaches to philosophical counseling has its own goals, methods, and practice, as does Philosophical Midwifery (PMW), but it needs to be asked which philosophical tradition is PMW a member of, if any? Or, should PMW stand alone and apart from both philosophy and psychology? Since Philosophical Midwifery assumes that human conflicts can be traced to the acceptance of a false

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