Download or read book Philosophical Midwifery written by Pierre Grimes and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that the struggles & problematic behavior encountered in a pursuit of one's personally significant goals are to be expected & can be understood & resolved by an adaptation of Socratic dialogue, called philosophical midwifery. This new method for exploring human problems is outlined & demonstrated through two case studies which form the basis of the validation study. Dr. Pierre Grimes discusses this theory & the implications of such a paradigm for philosophy as well as relating it to current scientific theories & models from chaos theory, complexity theory, & field theory. Dr. Regina Uliana, a clinical psychologist, compares this method with psychotherapeutic methods including Freud, Jung, Rogers, Adler, & Ellis. This book is based upon a 1986 validation study of philosophical midwifery that concluded, "the long held belief that a rational psychotherapy is, in principle, incapable of either being empirically verified, or of affecting emotionalized behaviour, is rejected." PHILOSOPHICAL MIDWIFERY: A NEW PARADIGM FOR UNDERSTANDING HUMAN PROBLEMS... is a major contribution to the recent emergence of philosophical counseling as an alternative to the current ways of looking at our problems--a departure from finding solutions to human problems solely in the field of psychotherapy & mental health.